19 propositions
CARL ROGER’S 19 PROPOSITIONS
PROPOSITION 1: HUMAN EXPERIENCE AT ACONCIOUS AND UNCONCIOUS LEVEL Every individual exists in a continually changing world of experience of which he is the centre.
PROPOSITION 2: HUMAN PERCEPTION
The organism reacts to the field as it is experienced and perceived. This perceptual; field is, for the individual, reality.
PROPOSITION 3: WHOLENESS
The organism reacts as a whole to this phenomenal field.
PROPOSITION 4: SELF-DETREMENATION
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism.
PROPOSITION 5: NEEDS AND BEHAVIOUR
Behaviour is basically the goal-directed attempt of the organism to satisfy its needs as experience, in the field as perceived.
PROPOSITION 6: EMOTIONS
Emotion accompanies and in general facilitates such goal directed behaviour, the kind of emotion being related to the socking versus the consummatory aspects of the behaviour, and the intensity of the emotion being related to the perceived significance of the behaviour for the maintenance and enhancement of the organism.
PROPOSITION 7: FRAME OF REFERENCE
The best vantage point for understanding behaviour is from the internal frame of reference for the individual himself.
PROPOSITION 8: THE SELF
A portion of the total perceptual field gradually becomes differentiated as the self.
PROPOSITION 9: THE SELF AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
As a result of interaction with the environment, and particularly as a result of evaluational interaction with others, the structure of self is formed - an organized, fluid, but consistent conceptual pattern of perceptions of characteristics and relationships of the “I” or the “me” together with values attached to these concepts.
PROPOSITION 10: VALUES:OWN AND ADOPTED FROM OTHERS
The values attach themselves to experiences, and the values which are a part of the self structure, in some instances are values experienced directly by the
PROPOSITION 1: HUMAN EXPERIENCE AT ACONCIOUS AND UNCONCIOUS LEVEL Every individual exists in a continually changing world of experience of which he is the centre.
PROPOSITION 2: HUMAN PERCEPTION
The organism reacts to the field as it is experienced and perceived. This perceptual; field is, for the individual, reality.
PROPOSITION 3: WHOLENESS
The organism reacts as a whole to this phenomenal field.
PROPOSITION 4: SELF-DETREMENATION
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism.
PROPOSITION 5: NEEDS AND BEHAVIOUR
Behaviour is basically the goal-directed attempt of the organism to satisfy its needs as experience, in the field as perceived.
PROPOSITION 6: EMOTIONS
Emotion accompanies and in general facilitates such goal directed behaviour, the kind of emotion being related to the socking versus the consummatory aspects of the behaviour, and the intensity of the emotion being related to the perceived significance of the behaviour for the maintenance and enhancement of the organism.
PROPOSITION 7: FRAME OF REFERENCE
The best vantage point for understanding behaviour is from the internal frame of reference for the individual himself.
PROPOSITION 8: THE SELF
A portion of the total perceptual field gradually becomes differentiated as the self.
PROPOSITION 9: THE SELF AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
As a result of interaction with the environment, and particularly as a result of evaluational interaction with others, the structure of self is formed - an organized, fluid, but consistent conceptual pattern of perceptions of characteristics and relationships of the “I” or the “me” together with values attached to these concepts.
PROPOSITION 10: VALUES:OWN AND ADOPTED FROM OTHERS
The values attach themselves to experiences, and the values which are a part of the self structure, in some instances are values experienced directly by the