This paper examines how Carl Ransom Rogers (1902 -1987) was the forefather of client centered therapy and how his approach
was humanistic and how he believed that all individuals had the basic capacity for good. In particular, it critically appraises his
theory of
personality. Outline Actualizing Tendency Self Self - Actualizing Tendency Organismic Valuing and Conditions of Worth Fully Functioning Person and the Self The Maladjusted Person Evaluation of Rogers' Theory of Personality