A review of client self-criticism in psychotherapy

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The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, background): “The relationships we have with ourselves , especially in the forms of shame (Kim, Thibodeau, & Jorgensen, 2011) and self-criticism (Kannan & Levitt, 2013), underpin a wide range of mental health problems (Gilbert & Irons, 2005).”
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “…to before even Freud [32] there is considerable evidence that having a hostile, contemptuous and critical approach to oneself, in contrast to a supportive and compassionate one, is highly associated with vulnerabilities to a range of mental health problems, particularly depression [46, 65, 81, 95].”
Ability to receive compassion from others buffers the depressogenic effect of self-criticism: A cross-cultural multi-study analysis (2016, methodology): “Integrating the psychotherapy literature on self-criticism (for reviews, see Kannan & Levitt, 2013; Kelly & Zuroff, 2013), our findings suggest the importance of helping self-critical patients experience and internalize compassion from the therapist.”