A comparrison of the theories of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.

The Theories of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers Maslow and Rogers come from a school of thought, which is referred to as Humanistic. Such an approach steers away from the idea that man is a robot, who is the total product of outside forces, as the Behaviorist would maintain; or that man simply results from the interaction of primal drives and the demands of community - a belief held by many Freudians. The Humanistic approach …

…empirical principle and an ethical idea. Their vision of human nature as intrinsically good became a major theme of the "human potential" movement, but was criticized by some other humanistic psychologists as an inadequate model of the human experience. Sources: Toward a Psychology of Being (1968), Maslow Motivation and Personality (first edition, 1954, and second edition, 1970), Maslow The Further Reaches of Human Nature (1971), Maslow Client-centered Therapy (1951), Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961), Rogers A Way of Being (1980), Rogers