Encounters can be understood as authentic, congruent meetings between others. The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. ...

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Some uses of the concept of encountering:

Carl Rogers created encounter groups and explored the importance of congruence in person-centered psychotherapy. Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, was the founder of the humanist approach to psychology. ... As an abstract term, congruence means similarity between objects. ... Person-Centered Therapy (PCT), also knwn as Client-centered therapy, was developed by the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. ...

Encounters are central to Jerzy Grotowski's notion of a "poor theatre". "The core of the theatre is an encounter" Jerzy Grotowski (11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and a leading figure in avant garde theatre of the 20th century. ...

R D Laing contrasts authentic encounters between people with negotiated collusions between false selves in his book Self and Other. R.D.Laing; photo credit Robert E. Haraldsen Ronald David Laing (October 7, 1927 – August 23, 1989), was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis. ... Look up collusion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...