ABSTRACT
In order to exit from the struggle, clients need to stop evaluating themselves, either positively or negatively. Simply put, self-evaluation is a major contributor to psychological distress. The people who come for psychotherapy are often, if not always, struggling to think highly of themselves because they are menaced by low self-esteem. Theorists of therapy often make a distinction between "deep" and "superficial" levels of the psyche. The market system is not the only cause of distress or the only target for psychotherapy. Therapists need to be just as sensitive as ever to all the other traditional sources of illness and misery. Clients often deny that what they have expressed is an opinion. They argue that it is actually a perception of reality. Getting clients to realize that they are actually doing something when they engage in self-evaluation can be a problem. They have the impression that they are simply registering, passively, an aspect of reality.
