Diagnósticos e abordagem centrada na pessoa

Abstract

It has been widely held that Carl Rogers was strongly negative towards diagnoses as useless and even harmful.However, during the analysis of his work, it appears that he used, without prejudice, the traditional diagnoses of psychopathology, as can be seen in works such as Psychotherapy and Personality Change (1954), Psychotherapy and its Impact (1967) and On Personal Power (1977).In our opinion, your attitude would be based on a pragmatic approach to communication.However, with the paradigm shift assumed in December 1940, from the biomedical to the "new therapies", C. Rogers started to use, without expressly mentioning it, a new diagnostic device.This "tool", based on the six necessary and sufficient conditions for therapeutic change, constitutes a relational "means of diagnosis" and, in our perspective, consistent with the attitude of trust in the client's capacity for self-organization, a fundamental element for the development of the therapeutic process.In this sense, the present article aims to describe C. Rogers' "journey" and his consistency of thought regarding the diagnostic process and its use.