ABSTRACT
As with Sigmund Freud, many of Carl Ransom Rogers' followers are thinking people themselves and intent on building on the foundations which Rogers created: the death of the founder gives license for change. Rogers was, like Freud, determined to become scientific, a leader in the field of psychology. Carl Rogers believed that for the client to make any progress the therapist would have to be real in their presence. Rogers has set goals which are outwith the capabilities of person-centred practitioners. The criticism of the parental role is aimed directly at psychoanalysis as Rogers believed it was notorious for creating dependency. Like Freud, Rogers' followers have had difficulty in coming of age where religion is concerned because it was such a taboo subject for their founder. The person-centred approach, like the psychodynamic approach, arose from the psyche of someone who had rejected the religion of his father as well as his chosen tradition.
