A comparrison of the theories of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.

The Theories of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers Maslow and Rogers come from a school of thought, which is referred to as Humanistic. Such an approach steers away from the idea that man is a robot, who is the total product of outside forces, as the Behaviorist would maintain; or that man simply results from the interaction of primal drives and the demands of community - a belief held by many Freudians. The Humanistic approach …showed first 75 words of 1102 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1102 total…empirical principle and an ethical idea. Their vision of human nature as intrinsically good became a major theme of the "human potential" movement, but was criticized by some other humanistic psychologists as an inadequate model of the human experience. Sources: Toward a Psychology of Being (1968), Maslow Motivation and Personality (first edition, 1954, and second edition, 1970), Maslow The Further Reaches of Human Nature (1971), Maslow Client-centered Therapy (1951), Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961), Rogers A Way of Being (1980), Rogers