"A purely technological approach to psychotherapy may block its therapeutic effect...As soon, and as long as we actually interpret our assignment merely in terms of techniques and dynamics we have missed the point--and we have missed the hearts of those to whim we wish to offer mental first aid in their predicament. Approaching human beings merely in terms of techniques necessarily implies manipulating them. Approaching them merely in terms of dynamics implies reifying them, making human beings into mere things. And these human beings immediately feel and notice the manipulative quality of our approach and our tendency to reify them." -- Viktor Frankl
Frank, V.E. (1967). Logotherapy and existentialism. Psychotherapy: Theory, research and practice, 4(3), 128-143.
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