One of the most influential psychotherapeutic themes has been that developed by Carl Rogers under the broad title of Client-Centered psychotherapy. Essentially Rogers advocated a non-directive mode of psychotherapy in which the client is maximally free to express himself and is subject to a minimum of organisation or expert 'treatment' by the therapist.

His work have now extended into the firle dof education where the Rogerian therapeutic model has been adopted as a way of looking a teacher/pupil relationships and freeing them of some of the more deadly formalities of the academic world.