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Chapter 3: Origins and Evolution of the Person-Centred Innovation in Carl Rogers’ lifetime
For M. Cooper, P. F. Schmid, & M. O’Hara (Eds), The Handbook of person-centred psychotherapy and counselling. Palgrave Macmillan. 2nd Edition.  
Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard
This chapter tracks and discusses:
• Rogers’ formative history, to illuminate the ground of experience from which his main ideas began to unfold.
•   The early phases of thought and development reflected in his first books (1939 and 1942) and the start of his work at the University of Chicago
• Features of the wider milieu of the 1930s and World War 2 that were crucial influences on his outlook and advance.
• The steps building up from Rogers’ 1951 book and culminating in his ground-breaking formulation of the basic conditions for therapeutic change.
• The outpouring of research and development following Roger’s conditions theory and his conception of personality functioning from stasis to process.
•   Rogers’ later pioneering work in education and in the sphere of intensive small and large groups and peace workshops, continuing to the end of his life.
Knowing how a major development began and unfolded creates the possibility of understanding it in depth. The fact that Carl Rogers was an American and that he grew up, lived and worked in particular historical times has great bearing on the nature and impact of his contribution. Already an adolescent when the United States entered the First World War, Rogers’ tertiary education and first professional steps occurred in the 1920s. He then worked full-time as a practitioner psychologist through the Great Depression and 1930s, and launched into his academic career and ground-breaking contribution during the Second World War. His innovative trajectory continued to the end of his life in February 1987.
Carl Rogers: personal origins and influences
Rogers was a middle child in a religiously strict, socially conservative and close-knit family. He...