Carl Rogers saw the ability of people to listen to each other as fundamental to therapy and to the positive development of all human relationships.

Carl Rogers is known for developing client-centered therapy, the essence of which can be summed up in the idea that it is the client and not the therapist who knows best and what directions to go in.

“For decades I had a two-inch stack of correspondence with Carl Rogers sitting in my file drawer,” writes Howard Kirschenbaum in the introduction to his latest book, “On Becoming Carl Rogers’ ...