In this theoretical exploration, Clinical Psychologist Benjamin Skolnik explores the sometimes complicated balance between working to facilitate change and respecting the rights of people to live their lives according to the dictates of their own philosophies and value systems. He explores the temptation for the therapist to impose his or her own value system upon the client in the name of helping, and the ways in which this is both a problematic and, perhaps, ubiquitous and inescapable part of the therapeutic endeavor. This issue is looked at from a number of angles, moving progressively...