Resources

Academia.edu. This website doesn't require you to be a member of any organisation - you can sign up as an 'independent researcher'. Once in, you can use the search bar to search for any papers or topics that interest you. You will find lots of papers to download.

Researchgate.net

Cecil Patterson, a counsellor, wrote many articles on counselling, including on the person-centered approach. The website isn’t in the best format but there are many papers downloadable. Elements has a small database of both person-centered and general counselling articles

Gendlin’s website has a focusing library with many articles on.

Creative edge focusing articles database.

Focusing therapy’s articles

Centre for studies of the person: Carl Rogers’ memorial library. This includes not just many papers by Rogers, but also papers from Maureen O’Hara and other person-centered people.

ADPCA has a library for articles about the person-centered approach. ADPCA also has back issues of its journal available

Peter Schmid has a list of his papers available online.

Universities often have repositories. If you find a paper on PCEP for example that you can’t access, you can look up the university that the author is based at, and see if they have a repository

Strathclyde – Mick Cooper, Robert Elliott and Beth Friere are all based here – just put their names in.

Open University has a similar repository with over 50 articles on counselling

If you have a google account and are a student in UK higher education, rather than doing a scholar.google.com search for papers and then searching your university search engine for papers, it is possible to link the two so that hits that come up in google can be accessed via your university info straight away with no separate search.