What makes people fearful is not just their amygdala and past trauma; it is also living in environments – families, communities, media ecosystems, that repeatedly tell them “you are not safe, you are not enough, and danger is everywhere.”
Although Rogers wrote mainly about the real self and ideal self, the terms independent self and interdependent self come from later “self‑construal” research in cultural psychology
Dysfunctional, incongruent organisations can often use Targeted Organisational Disempowerment methodologies, in order to maintain an external and internal narrative of fairness and equality, while disempowering targeted groups.
This article discusses the concept of Self-Integrity, and how that relates to other concepts of personality and self-awareness.
Carl Rogers’ phenomenological theory of personality and behaviour forms the core of his person-centred approach, viewing the individual’s subjective “phenomenal field”, as the primary determinant of behaviour and growth.