“What they taught, in effect, was that you aren’t responsible for your miserable problems because you are the victim of factors and circumstances beyond your control,” he said. “I objected to that. My thrust was that patients have to be worked with as if they have choices to make. My question is always, ‘What are you going to do about your life, beginning today?’ ”

That's a quote from william glasser.

Doesn't sound that far flung to me.

Of course in the next sentence of the piece he indicated that he was thrown out of his training program.

The only thing i know from my own experience is that if there is a choice to be made that anxiety/depression can trick you into thinking there isn't.