ABSTRACT

Person-centred therapy, however, has something UK Humanistic Psychology (HP) as a whole can learn from: it has been advancing and evolving, providing a therapeutic space and conditions that allow the client to encounter themselves in some way, and for unknown options to emerge, options that might, however, sometimes appear 'negative' if viewed via a more 'outcome'-based or manualized model. Person-centred psychotherapy theory greatly informed the philosophical underpinning of HP, and once established as the 'third force' in psychology, person-centred psychotherapy was recognized as one of several new psychotherapy approaches within this new paradigm. 'Person-Centred' Psychotherapy and Counselling (PCPC) also known as 'Client-Centred' Therapy (CCT) and formerly known as 'non-directive' therapy was developed by Carl Rogers and his colleagues in the 1940s and 1950s in an attempt to locate the person/client at the centre of the therapeutic encounter and to challenge the dominance of the medical model, particularly psychiatry, at this time.