The author's thesis is that values play an important role in psychotherapy and that the therapist cannot function outside his background and personality. One of the therapist's jobs is to help the patient join value and action and consequence. Part of therapy is clarification of the nature of the patient's value distortions to enable him to take appropriate action. Inappropriate action contains a distortion in the perception of reality involving failure of values. The therapist must disengage himself from the neurosis of the patient rather than surrender his criteria of values.