ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the task of psychotherapy from the daimonic perspective become interested in the impact and significance of illness and its symptoms. It describes a line between conditions that manifest in a predominantly invisible emotional way such as anxiety and depression and those that are more tangible and evidently physical. The chapter argues that many writers and sufferers are able to see meaning and purpose in the most extreme and overwhelming of physical afflictions. It aims to assist a sufferer in the natural daimonic process of being "carried beyond" the place of literal and seemingly meaningless physical or mental suffering to a place wherein they can find significance. Sontag insists that an acute physical disease must be dealt with immediately in a practical physical way. The illness is simultaneously both a literal physical illness and a psychological state. In Frederick Perls revision of psychoanalysis he draws many illuminating parallels between psychological and physiological processes.
