Individual psychology fits only a particular kind of human being. We postulate a psychotherapy to include the spiritual element. Logotherapy is intended to supplement psychotherapy. Responsibility implies a sense of obligation. An affirmative attitude toward life is crucial.
The pleasure principle is an artificual creation of psychology. Human volition has any of a number of human ends. Value is transcendent to the act that intends it. Existential analysis and logotherapy aim at bringing the patient to the highest point of concentration and dedication.
No man is justified in insisting on his own inadequacies. The meaning of individuality comes to fulfillment in the community. Man's reality is a potentiality. Freedom of the will is opposed to destiny.
Human existence underwent deformation in the concentration camps. First there is regression to primitiveness. Most people were tormented by a sense of inferiority. It was a provisional existence. Life was futureless and monotonous. Psychic degeneration might lead to total apathy. During the week between Christmas and New Year 1944 there was unprecedented mass mortality. The liberated prisoner was still in need of care.
Human life can be fulfilled in suffering. The patient as sufferer may be superior to the doctor. The chief symptom of unemployment neurosis is apathy. Where love is lacking, work becomes a substitute. Love is not only grace, it is enchantment. Human existence is fundamentally grounded in responsibility.
Logotherapy sets out to transform the neurotic's view of his neurosis. The obsessional neurotic has excessive consciousness and conscientiousness. The striving for security in anxiety neurosis and obsessional neurosis is deflected. The melancholic devalues himself and the whole world. The application of paradoxical intention has been useful in many cases of phobic neurosis.