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In his summary ofthe possible future oflogotherapy, David Guttmann refers to the
present world-order. He said that as the world we live in turns increasingly violent,
cold and impersonal, technical, computerized, automated and atomized, the more
there is a need for a theory thatelevates men - rather than pulls them further down.
He wrote that while psychoanalysis is slowly fading away, making way in the process
to new schools ofpsychotherapy, the "height psychology" ofViktor Frankl is making
inroads to every part ofthe globe.
Countries experiencing tremendous economic and political changes, such as in the
former Eastern bloc, are particularly ready to accept Franklian ideas, but the same
applies to countries in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia, as well as in the
industrialized parts ofthe world. Guttmann is among those who believe that logo­
therapy will become the therapy ofthe 21st century because ofits humanistic credo
(1996:12).
Logotherapists openly would say that their techniques and/or methods are not exclu­
sive methods that must be used on their own, but they are all aids that can assist in
the therapeutic or healing process. However, again it is the client/patient that must
decide and must make a choice about the way he/she is going to deal with the parti­
cular psychosocial and/or environmental problem.
Jim Davis (1998/1999:46) said in his article, rethinking the process ofglobalization,
that globalization inter alia means that one understands where things are coming
from and where they are going. This remark is important, especially in the light of
the present tendency ofmany who want to move towards economic and political
globalization.
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