[Possibility of logotherapy in hypnosis]

After reviewing the main concepts underlying Frankl's logotherapy, the difficulty of application in cases of melancholy and obsessive-phobia is reported. However, use of the treatment in psychoneuroses is considered to be effective. Since the logotherapy procedure is long, it has been associated with hypnosis: in this state logotherapeutic directions are suggested by means of convinction, persuasion, discussion and not by suggestion or controls which could impede the maturation of the Id if not correctly given. Under hypnosis, when consciousness is reduced but the mind is intensely active, the above procedures are not only feasible but an enormous aid to therapy. Integration between hypnosis therapy and logotherapy could come about at the level of the so-called Franklin "dereflexia" since hypnotic "deconditioning" could break independent associative links by bringing to light the symptom which usually gives rise to anxiety within the psychic and somatic calm of the trance. It is considered that this destructuralising procedure is more useful than rational and ridiculing psychotherapy. Although logotherapy and hypnotherapy are different procedures with different applications, they may be combined in some cases.