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Alienation As a product of 1960's American society, Carl Rogers with his Humanistic approach brings the concept of the self back to psychology. Within his theories of the self and how it functions, Rogers assigned an important part to alienation - the estrangement of oneself, which will be discussed below. According to Rogers, we are born with the Organismic Valuing Process, an innate sense of right and wrong. This leads us, or rather should lead us through life, help us form adequate relationships with other people and govern our self-actualisation. A Fully Functioning Person[SN1] should, at all times be 'in tune' with their Organismic Valuing Process, which can also mean in tune with themselves, because the self should be based on the Organismic Valuing Process. Most often, however, this is not the case. People tend to internalize values that the society sets them. We start to believe in what...

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