Active intervention is requested by patients for all manner of problems. Patients who feel a need to control the therapist and look upon his interventions as evidence of their ability to regulate the relationship will constantly try to manipulate the therapist into activity on their behalf. Certainly a very large number of any therapist's patients seek to have him instruct, command, forbid, inform, show methods, give advice; “What should I do?” In the case of patients in hospital settings, where legal or court complications exist, or in any of many similar situations, the patient may request that a letter be written to someone, a pass be obtained, permission for actions not part of the accepted activity for the patient be granted, and so forth.