Lowrey takes issue with the principles and practice of 'nondirective therapy' as worked out by Carl Rogers and his followers, who include a considerable number of psychologists and social workers. Nondirective therapy has as its aims the free expression of thought and feeling by the patient, establishment of sympathetic relationship between counselor and client, avoidance of direct advice or suggestion, and encouragement in the development of insight. As Lowrey points out, the procedure has a great but unacknowledged debt to psychoanalysis. He maintains that actually the method 'is full of directives in the very limitations it imposes upon client and counselor, there is insufficient opportunity for working through of problems and there is definite danger in the use of such methods by practitioners who do not understand motivations or dynamics'. He summarizes his opinions in the statement that nondirective therapy 'is based on inadequate theory and is carried on in a rigid way to confused ends'.