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Dr Schindler critiques the clinical/medical model of community psychology within its objectified client/patient. Conversely, the clinician operates with reified theories, delimiting himself to the role of master psychologist engaged in a disturbed mode of communication with the slave other. The clinician/master is the enforcer of capitalist society's code, which socialises people into a slave mentality. Unable to engage his client in an authentic dialogue, the psychologist is unable to let the historical story of his client unfold phenomenologically as would be the case with the appropriate and intential integration of theory and practice. This same master/clinical relationship to his client can be an analogue for the capitalist owner in his relationship to the worker/citizen. Dr Schindler then innovates practical techniques for therapeutic intervention into the concrete individual and institutional problems of American society.