ABSTRACT
Psychotherapy is generally understood as the treatment of psychological blocks, problems, conflicts or disease. The relationship between psychotherapy and religion or spirituality is not usually dealt with in clinical psychotherapy. Spirituality becomes indispensable in the ontological quest for meaning. Psychotherapy is a scientifically based and empirically verified approach to helping people with psychological, psychosomatic, and social problems or suffering. Psychotherapy does not represent a promise of salvation. Psychotherapy, to use a traditional differentiation, cannot offer salvation but can stimulate healing. Psychotherapy is a craft created by humans. Psychotherapy can only help as much as a patient is willing to contribute. Viktor Frankl indicated "self-distancing" and "self-transcendence" as the anthropological preconditions for this realisation, which enable us to respond to the demands of the world.
