Abstract
The issue of "control" within the therapeutic relationship is fascinating to most psychologists, as evidenced by the now classic debate of Rogers and Skinner 1 on the control of human behavior. Experimentally, we manipulate subjects to test effects of certain variables; therapeutically, we train parents to handle their children; and, recently, researchers have been investigating the efficiency of certain techniques which enable clients to manage their own behavior. The virtue and importance of self-control have been widely cited by numerous writers. London for example, states that: In order to defend individual freedom, it is necessary to enhance the power of individuals. If behavior technology endangers freedom by giving refined powers to controllers, then the anecdote which promotes freedom is to give more refined
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