Makiko Mikuni

Article I: My perception of Japanese-style basic encounter groups ~ learning from facilitating encounter groups ~ by Makiko Mikuni.
Useful cross-cultural (from my European perspective) exploration of encounter groups. I found of particular interest the author's reflections on how the formal use of language perpetuates unquestioned social power hierarchies in a space intended to be egalitarian.

Article II: Carl Rogers' reset with an African American client: a discussion by Ross Crisp
This article compares Carl Rogers' demonstration counselling sessions in 1977 and 1984 with two different African American clients, showing the development in Rogers' capacity to engage with his interlocutors with increased cultural sensitivity and awareness of his own white privilege, demonstrating greater empathy and congruence in the latter session. The author's reflections on anti-racism are helpful.

Article III: An unexpected epigraph: exploring the personal and philosophical relevance of Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carl Ransom Rogers by Emily Dalton
I know Emerson only from a couple of extracts I've read of his work, so was interested to hear that there may be more of relevance to person-centredness in his thought than I'd been aware of. Dalton's essay reasonably posits an influence from Emerson on Rogers' ideas, though making no great claims that Emerson's Transcendentalism is foundational but rather one of the many strands Roger wine into his own work. I definitely want to read more Emerson now.

Article IV: Focusing, the felt sense, and meaning in life by Siebrecht Vanhooren, Annelies Grossman's and Jeroen Breynaert
Interesting study of how the Focusing attitude may reduce existential angst.

Article V: "The scientific flourishing of Emotion-Focussed Therapy": a bibliometric analysis of EFT articles in Web of Science databases by Estefanía Mónaco, Rhonda N. Goldman and Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla
Lots of statistical analysis which went over my head 😊… (meer)