ABSTRACT
One of the most important of the psychosocially oriented clinicians is Carl Rogers who has not only produced a theory of personality and an explanation of psychological disorders, but has introduced two very important therapeutic techniques in client-centred therapy and encounter groups. Client-centred therapy has been criticized on the grounds that Rogers' belief is a mistaken one. Truax, in his investigation of one of Rogers' successful cases, found that the therapist responded differently to five out of the nine categories of patient behaviour which were studied. The encounter group movement has been severely attacked on the grounds that it can cause, or at least precipitate, psychological disturbances of various sorts. 'Schizophrenia' is seen as an extension of the schizoid condition in existential psychiatry. One difference between the two concerns the precise nature' of the anxieties which threaten the inner self.
