Person-Centered Approach in Working with Organizations

Abstract

The authors share their impressions of the conference dedicated to the anniversary of Carl Rogers, one of the brightest representatives of humanistic psychology (January 2014, San Diego, USA), to which they had visited. Particular emphasis is placed on the report conspicuously present organizational-psychological problems in the activities of this conference, as well as in the activities of the Center for Studies of the Person, which was based by K. Rogers in the 70-ies of the last century. Then the text of an interview with one of the companions, and at the same time – a serious opponent – of C. Rogers, Ernest Meadows, which has been practiced the Person-Centered Approach (PCA) for several decades to working with business organizations.