He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
The opportunities for collective psychotherapy were naturally limited in camp.
The right example was more effective than words could ever be.
A senior block warden who did not side with the authorities had, by his just and encouraging behavior,
a thousand opportunities to exert a far-reaching moral influence on those under his jurisdiction.
The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words.
But at times a word was effective too, when mental receptiveness had been intensified by some outer circumstances.
I remember an incident when there was occasion for psychotherapeutic work on the inmates of a whole hut,
due to an intensification of their receptiveness because of a certain external situation.
It had been a bad day. On parade, an announcement had been made about the many actions that would, from then on, be regarded as sabotage
and therefore punishable by immediate death by hanging.
Among these were crimes such as cutting small strips from our old blankets (in order to improvise ankle supports) and very minor “thefts.”
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