"[The therapist] avoids being too supportive, because he hopes not only to offer sustaining help but also, through his therapeutic attitude of being nonjudgmental, noncondemning, nonsubmissive, nonanxious, noncontrolling, firm, consistent, and realistic, to have a modifying...

effect on the patient's personality. He knows that the constant playing of the note of supportiveness is often not enough. He knows, further, that a too empathic or too profound sounding of that note may infantilize the patient." - Maurice Levine, M.D.