ABSTRACT
A number of therapeutic approaches stress the equality between therapists and clients. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) partially agrees with this, but in other respects disagrees with it. Clients for whom an equal relationship is important, often question that while REBT therapists may not neglect the therapeutic relationship with their clients, but is not this relationship unequal. The purpose of therapy is to help you to overcome your psychological problems and live more resourcefully. REBT therapists openly acknowledge this real inequality, but stress that it needs to be placed in the context of a relationship between two equally fallible human beings'. They need to explain to clients that since they know more about how people disturb themselves and how they can change, this does constitute an inequality. Both are equal in worth but unequal in certain specific respects.
