Carl Rogers' responses in the Seventeenth session with Miss Mun: comments from a process-experiential and psychoanalytic perspective

Miss Mun was one of the first of Carl Rogers' therapeutic sessions to be filmed. Reproduces the transcript of the entire session, followed by an empirical and clinical-qualitative analysis by 2 client-centred therapists. Scrutinizes 5 task-oriented processes in detail: the evocative impact of reflections of feeling; empathic affirmation at a marker of intense vulnerability; focusing reflections; working with the 'inner critic'; and exploring unfinished business. The session transcript was also submitted to a psychoanalyst for evaluation to add a further point of view. Client-centred therapists comment on 3 questions: an all to continual reflection, too much participation and too little observation, and whether Rogers is too good a mother figure. (Original abstract - amended)