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Historical review uncovers the emergence of client-centred therapy amid Freudian dominance, indicating its core principles preceded humanistic psychology.
All therapeutic systems contain elements and repercussions of their antecedents, some more obviously so than others. Client-centred psycho-therapy arose at a time when the dominating influences in the main were the various Freudian schools — it was not until much later that “Humanistic Psychology’ emerged as a significant trend in psychology. When it did, the principles of the PCA had already been established
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