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It becomes clearthat the real problem for humanand phenomenological personolo­
gists lies in the exact motive that the logotherapist has in mindwith the therapy. If
anyformofself-actualization andlorself-realization is denied, then it would serve no
real meaningful purpose. Logotherapists, in assistingandlordirecting the client/pa­
tient, strongly need to take this point into account when usingdereflection in their
therapeutic setting.
Theidiographic approachofGordonAllport (from a dispositional point ofview),
whichis directedtoward uncovering the uniqueness ofeach person as in his "Letters
from Jenny"(Allport 1965),is something whichlogotherapists will emphasized that
theyhave in common with dispositional personologists. It is because ofthe recog­
nition ofthe uniqueness ofevery human being thatlogotherapists will say thatthey
"use
dereflection. Thisaid not onlyrecognizesthe uniqueness ofeveryperson, but it
assistsin directing himlher away from hislher problematic symptoms to a more
definite goal-directed lifestyle.
Although the psychodynamic perspectivesinteralia includeassessment techniques
like free association, interpretation ofresistance, dream analysis, analysisoftrans­
ference and emotional reeducation and nowadays even group or family therapy,
andlormedical prescriptions (Hjelle & Ziegler 1992: 120-125), the practical
"movement" from the presentto the past "life" ofa patient/client, is not in line with
the modusoperandi oflogotherapists who want to free those who come for therapy.
Insteadoffocusing on the unconscious Freudian"id", the focus is placed outside the
person,on "someone/something" else which is meaningful andlorwill give meaning
to the patient/client, andlorthe patient/client is directed to attach andlor to give mean­
ing to "someoneelse/something."
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