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Peter F. Schmid
THE PERSON
IN THE PERSON-CENTRED
APPROACH
Being-with and being-counter
in the therapeutic relationship
Sheffield, 7-8 April 2006
The distinguishing characteristics
of a person-centered approach
1. As persons client & therapist
spring from a fundamental ‘We’
2. The client is the expert
3. The therapist is present
4. Therapy is dialogue
 PERSON
 ENCOUNTER
 PRESENCE
 DIALOGUE
anthropology
epistemology
ethics
therapy theory
& practice
PERSON
person-centred anthropology
the pc image of the human being
PERSON
© Peter F. Schmid
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The human being is both
autonomous & interdependent
Client & therapist spring
from a fundamental ‚We‘
The distinguishing characteristics
of a person-centered approach
1. As persons client & therapist
spring from a fundamental ‘We’
2. The client is the expert
3. The therapist is present
4. Therapy is dialogue
 PERSON
 ENCOUNTER
anthropology
epistemology
ENCOUNTER
person-centred epistemology
the pc way of understanding
ENCOUNTER
To encounter means to be touched
by the disclosure of the Other
(constituting a Thou-I-relationship)
The client is the expert
The distinguishing characteristics
of a person-centered approach
1. As persons client & therapist
spring from a fundamental ‘We’
2. The client is the expert
3. The therapist is present
4. Therapy is dialogue
 PERSON
 ENCOUNTER
 PRESENCE
anthropology
epistemology
ethics
PRESENCE
person-centred ethics
the pc way of being and acting
PRESENCE
CoCo-creating the
therapeutic relationship
out of the fertile moment
To be present means to kairologicaly
co-create out of (mutual) encounter
(fully living the core conditions)
The therapist is present (i.e. he/she is
co-experiencing & co-responding
with/to the client)
The distinguishing characteristics
of a person-centered approach
1. As persons client & therapist
spring from a fundamental ‘We’
2. The client is the expert
3. The therapist is present
4. Therapy is dialogue
 PERSON
 ENCOUNTER
 PRESENCE
 DIALOGUE
anthropology
epistemology
ethics
therapy theory
& practice
DIALOGUE
person-centred therapy theory
the pc way of doing
psychotherapy/counselling
DIALOGUE
BEINGBEING-WITH
&
BEINGBEING-COUNTER
Dialogue means being-with and beingcounter
Person-centred therapy is dialogic therapy
The distinguishing characteristics
of a person-centered approach
1. As persons client & therapist
spring from a fundamental ‘We’
2. The client is the expert
3. The therapist is present
4. Therapy is dialogue
The crucial & unique point of PCT is
the image of the human being
– seeing the human as a person
i.e. taking the ‘expert’s’ actualizing tendency
serious (and not push or ‘make’ or guide or know)
&
the understanding of relationship
– encounter person to person
i.e. proceeding from the unavoidable We
and responding to the client’s call
The crucial & unique point of PCT is
 in anthropological language:
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person instead of patient/client (i.e. resources instead of problems)
in dialogical language:
Thou-I out of We instead of I-Thou
in phenomenological language:
being open to what is revealed instead of observing
in epistemological language:
offering acknowledgment instead of gaining knowledge
in the language of a theory of ‘disorders’:
resources instead of problems, the ability to growth instead of disorder
in the language of theory of relationship:
encountering instead of making a relationship
in existential language:
being touched and present instead of seeking purposefully, finding out (‘in
order to’)
in technical language:
listening & being facilitative instead of guiding, steering or giving process
advice
in ethical language:
responding to a call instead of advising and moralizing
in didactical language:
‘Aus-Bildung’ (‘e-ducation’) instead of training
The distinguishing characteristics
of a person-centered approach
(the paradigm change)
1. As persons client & therapist
spring from a fundamental ‘We’
2. The client is the expert
3. The therapist is present
4. Therapy is dialogue
‘I am willing to stand
by valuing the person
above anything else.’
Carl R. Rogers
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