“Other readers may be raising another question: ‘It may be true that people who come for psychological help feel empty and hollow, but aren’t these neurotic problems, and not necessarily true for the majority of people?’ To be sure, we would answer, the persons who get to the consulting rooms of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts are not a cross-section of the population. By and large they are the ones for whom the conventional pretenses and defenses of the society no longer work. Very often they are the more sensitive and gifted members of society; they need to get help, broadly speaking, because they are less successful at rationalizing than the ‘well-adjusted’ citizen who is able for the time being to cover up his underlying conflicts. * * * Thus a relatively small number of people – those who come for psychotherapeutic help in the process of their struggle for inner integration – provide a very revealing and significant barometer of the conflicts and tensions under the psychological surface of the society.” (Rollo May in Man’s Search for Himself)