Dr. Carl R. Rogers was born in the year 1902 in the state of Illinois. He graduated in 1924 from the University of Wisconsin, and received his Masters Degree in 1928 from Columbia University. He then went on to get a Ph.D. in psychotherapy from Columbia University in 1931. Almost a decade later Carl Rogers, applied for and got the position, as a professor at the Ohio State University where he continued teaching till the year 1945. At the end of that term, in the same year, he started teaching psychology at the University of Chicago and was appointed as the managing attendant at the Counseling Center. He was also given a high managerial position at the University of Wisconsin in 1957 for the faculties of psychology and psychiatry.
             One of the most lasting and important contributions by Carl Rogers was probably in the field of "Humanistic Psychology" in the shape of the client-centered therapy; in fact, this later in his life became the main school of thought for all his researches, books, lectures, etc. One of his main focuses while working in the field of psychology was to the individuals' psychosomatics and hence became the pioneer of the notion of personality development. This particular interest aroused in him when he found himself working in, around and with young and innocent but ill-treated kids. What he observed during that time invoked him to think outside the box and challenge the present setup of psychiatric therapy and fearlessly assert that all the psychoanalytic, trial and error, and mannerism forms of therapy practiced were hindering the troubled individuals to achieve a condition of self-awareness and self-development because it was all too imposing. He declared that therapy should be just the guiding light and the individual should be allowed enough freedom to reach a conclusion of his own accord. This particular notion was very well received by contemporaries and learners alike and he received not onl...