Carl Rogers - A Humanistic Approach to Relieve Suffering

Carl Rogers, as mentioned earlier, believed that we must find our inner selves in order to help relieve much of our emotional discomfort. So, if that is the case, what has happened for us to be "stuck" in a "bad place?" In other words, how is it that we become so miserable sometimes? Things happen in life, good or bad, and often we cannot control those circumstances. One thing thing that often happens is getting so tangled up in things we cannot control. We can lose contact with ourselves this way. We tend to put aside things that make us happy in order to focus on those troubles. So, we may tend to keep ourselves in what Carl Rogers called a psychological prison.