Actualizing Tendency
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Actualizing Tendency
According to Carl Rogers, the Actualizing Tendency "is the inherent tendency of the organism to develop all its capacities in ways which serve to maintain or enhance the organism. It involves not only the tendency to meet" the ... Seven Essential Needs ... but also more generalized activities. It involves development toward the differentiation of organs and of functions, expansion in terms of growth, expansion of effectiveness through the use of tools, expansion and enhancement through reproduction. It is development toward autonomy and away from heteronomy, or control by external forces.[1]
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Carl Rogers Terms
Actualizing Tendency, Client-Centered Therapy, Congruence, Fully Functioning Person, Growth Hypothesis, Ideal Self, Self, Self-Structure, Tendency Towards Self-Actualization
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Self > Actualizing Tendency, Ideal Self, Self-Structure, Tendency Towards Self-Actualization
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Footnotes
- ↑ Rogers, Carl R. “A Theory of Therapy, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships, as Developed in the Client-Centered Framework.” In Psychology: A Study of a Science. Study 1, Volume 3: Formulations of the Person and the Social Context, edited by Sigmund Koch. McGraw-Hill, 1959. p. 196.M