The biggest problem with Schiller's friends' treatment of him had been that none of them possessed professional knowledge of psychology, psychiatry, or education. They worked backward from the desired outcome.
For instance, they believed Schiller's excessive Greed would cause him to hurt himself. The outcome they wanted was for Schiller not to hurt himself, so they concluded that he could not be allowed to be so greedy.
Naturally, the way to keep Schiller from being so greedy was to help lower his threshold, and the way to lower that threshold was to watch him at all times and stop him from causing trouble.
This method of treatment could not exactly be called wrong. It was simply like every parent in the world who forced a child to do something for the sake of a result. Their intentions were clearly good, yet the process always became mutual torment. In the end, they failed to get the result they wanted, and both sides only felt that the other was being unreasonable and failed to understand them.
The more they failed to achieve the desired result, the more extreme the conflict became. The last time Stark had treated Schiller, he had merely stopped everyone from going to Schiller for treatment. This time, Strange had progressed to using self-harm to hold Schiller back. If this still failed to work, both sides would only become more extreme.
Professor X differed from them because he was a good doctor and a good teacher. His educational methods were not outcome-oriented. He would never tell the students at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, "You must become a powerful Mutant," or, "You must control your abilities for the rest of your life and never lose control."
His methods of treatment and education were often focused on shaping character. By