The Film Ordinary People & Carl Rogers

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...Redford for Paramount in 1980, presents a dysfunctional family that is traumatized by guilt and grief. Conrad Jarrett is an adolescent who tries to commit suicide following the death of his brother, Buck, in a boating accident. Conrad cannot overcome his intense feeling of guilt for having survived the accident that killed his brother. Conrad is eventually able to heal due to the intervention of a therapist, Dr. Berger, the context of the movie suggests that Dr. Berger’s intervention can be viewed as adhering to the therapeutic and theoretical perspective of Carl Rogers.
Psychologist Carl Rogers (1902-2002) is considered to be one of the US’s most influential counselor and psychotherapists (Kirschenbaum, 2004). He developed a “client-centered, person-centered approach” to therapy that can be applied to either individual counseling or resolving group conflict (Kirschenbaum, 2004, p. 116). A principal tenet of Rogers’ approach is that the individual has the ability, “latent if not evident,” to comprehend the elements in his or her life that...

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