Rogers said it is difficult for a therapist to know a client's experiential world completely, because
a. no form of therapy is infallible.
b. communication is never perfect.
c. non-conscious experiences are inaccessible.
d. all of these are correct.
ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Although Rogers considered person-centered therapy the only worthwhile approach to personality assessment, he realized that it was not infallible. By focusing on subjective experiences, the therapist learns only about those events the client consciously expresses. The danger in trying to infer too much about non-conscious experiences is that the inferences the therapist draws may represent the therapist's own projections more than the client's actual experiences. Besides, because all forms of communication are imperfect, the therapist necessarily will see the client's world of experience imperfectly and incompletely.
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