read the essay by Rogers (1970) on encounter groups, I was surprised to note how, in the chapter in which we deal with issues 'Single person' and the experience of loneliness, Rogers paid is the concealment of the true inner self.
Having studied psychology at university when he was given ample space psychodynamic approach and having graduated with a thesis in which I detail the concepts of authenticity and forgery in psychoanalytic theory, I felt familiar with the thinking of Carl Rogers. Topics such as alienation, and the use of a form of false self, I hold dear and brings back memories of reading done during my adolescence, when identity was a daily experience of uncertainty and anguish. I loved the novels of Pirandello, characterized by the continual questioning of the nature and possibilities of authenticity and being true by the multiplicity of choices or tax forms from everyday life. According to Rogers is the fear that one's deepest authenticity can not be accepted and loved to make the individual the occult, overcome by fear and unable to appear to take this risk.
Rogers takes great care to examine the conditions facilitating the exchange authentic. Of his reflections carry with me the conviction that the possibility of obtaining a safe psychological climate to facilitate the clinical encounter showing the interlocutor. From here, some immediate questions arise such as: how to create such a space? What is the role of empathy in facilitating the meeting with the other? And yet the empathy that we encountered in significant figures of our childhood has allowed us to know what we really are?
At a tender age the child relies on the "wisdom of the body (Rogers, 1961, pp. 271).
The infant is absolutely at the heart of its system of evaluating and acting on the basis of maintaining the status and function and interruption of rewarding those that are not pleasant. He trusts himself unconsciously, is one with his own feelings, your experiencing, which is preconscious and spontaneous. This assessment process preconscious is fluid and changing, constantly adapting to the needs and current experience and is not influenced by what adults can find the reference more or less attractive or desirable.
Growing up, the child gradually develops its own identity within the parental relationship in which there is still a lack of distinction between self and you. In this report, the educator has a great responsibility, because by listening to the specific needs of the child and the awareness of those to satisfy him, in his accompanying the little take gradual awareness by becoming newspaper.
The relation with parental figures may undermine the original wisdom, leading to a limitation of its functionality and a castration, just creeping through evaluative constructs of behavior which, if not properly integrated by the contact and the empathic emotional recognition, promote the sale of small from those of his emotional experiences, perceived as unacceptable by parents, or in other cases distorts the child's emotions, turning them into something else.
A waiver of the right to hear is, according to Rogers, the cornerstone of any disorder, as it lies at the basis of lack of identity between the organismic self and ideal self, which characterizes the inconsistency of the individual, or his lack of contact with his own feelings.
The ability of the parent to recognize, to accept the emotional experience of the child and reflect a genuine empathic contact through the small favors a more complete symbolization of emotions, so that should not be distorted or cropped. He learns to be with their suffering and their needs, to recognize the dignity, to listen to them in their 'here and now' and to manage them.
I often reflect on the recovery of touch with their 'wisdom' original favor a state of being calm and firm interior, even though it stands on a process of constantly becoming, constantly pulsing and which has less fear. The full awareness of where you are in favor of change, using functional behaviors and effective argument to its realization.
Rogers CR (1961) On Becoming a Person. A therapist's view of psychotherapy, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (trad. it client-centered therapy, Tavistock, London, 1970)
Rogers CR (1970) On encounter groups, Harper and Row, New York (trad. it. Groups of 'meeting, Astrolabe, Rome, 1976)
