Stages of development person-centered therapy

Abstract

The article describes the basic stages of formation person-centered therapy: non-prescriptive, reflective, expiriental. The evolution associated with the transfer of emphasis from the general characteristics of the new paradigmatic approach to methodological, technical and operational characteristics of a particular psychotherapeutic process. It was suggested two ideas: 1) the place of subverbal experience in psychotherapy; 2) the topological model of the psyche, explaining and guiding therapy, the model which the author suggests. The article analyzes some sacred aspects of person-centered therapy.