Danny Wedding

the person as a self-determining and self-righting agent—is heretical.

Rogers’s theory posits that psychological maladjustment results from incongruence between a person’s concept of self and her organismic experiencing

Clients take more risks in order to fulfill the inner guidance of the organism as opposed to conform-ing to outside demands; in fact, clients in client-centered therapy experience deeper, increasingly existential living (Rogers, 1961).