AbstractWhile agreeing in part with Nassi's (1978) radical position on the failure of community control to be meaningfully implemented by the mental health establishment, a complementary analysis is proposed as being more complete by virtue of integrating a variety of societal and individual perspectives. This analysis builds on transactional epistemology and a multi‐level model of service delivery, also bringing to bear developmental and social evolutionary theory. A new service delivery role, the human development liaison specialist, is advanced as consistent with these notion