Freud and Rogers' techniques compared

“Although based on very different assumptions, both Freud and Rogers believed that many people have a “hidden” personality of which they are not aware. Briefly compare the nature of these “hidden” personalities, and discuss three assumptions from each theory that account for them. ”

Although both Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers believed in the notion that all humans possess a “hidden” personality, they differ greatly in their unique theories concerning the nature of this “hidden personality”, as well as in their assumptions that underpin these theories. Freud experimented with the psychoanalytic approach, inquiring into the psychic energies that operate in the unconscious mind. He proposed that it is these energies that make up a person’s “hidden” personality. Freud focused on the workings of the Id, Ego and Superego, and their task in psychic energy reduction (reduction of psychic tension). His theory of the “hidden” personality was based on the assumpt...