For fathers, mentors and schools
If your son, or a boy in your care, has been sent here, these are the questions you should ask about it. We would rather answer them before you have to.
It asks a boy to describe his own best self, once, carefully, in an hour — three people he admires and why, what he wants true of himself at thirty, what his shame tells him he values, what he'd do even knowing he'd fail, who is counting on him, and one sentence. Then, when he has a decision to make, it puts his own sentences next to his situation and asks: does that apply here? That is all. It reflects. It does not advise.
It will never tell him what his purpose is. This is the founding rule of the method it is built on: Viktor Frankl wrote that the logotherapist's job is to widen the field of view, not to paint the picture, and that logotherapy "is neither teaching nor preaching." The most serious criticism ever made of Frankl — that in practice he supplied his patients with goals — is answered here by design: the system cannot supply a goal, because it does not know one. The boy writes his own. The full account of the rule and the criticism is on the reference site.
In this version, nothing on any server. Everything he writes is saved in his own browser, on his own device, and he can erase it. There is no account, no email, no analytics on the hour. When a fuller version arrives it will say, on this page, exactly what changes, before it changes.
If he types anything that suggests he or someone else is in danger, the mirror stops and shows him real people to call, in Thailand and elsewhere, and tells him to tell one adult he trusts today. That page was built before anything else on the site, and the trigger is deliberately over-sensitive.
It is not a substitute for you. The whole design assumes a father, a mentor, a teacher and a cohort are in the boy's life, and it is built to say so if it notices it is being used instead of them. It is not therapy and does not treat anything. If a boy is in real difficulty, what he needs is a clinician and the people who love him, and this site will tell him that rather than take his evening.
Ask if you can. Don't correct it. The test is not whether you agree with it; it is whether a stranger reading it would recognise your son. If it reads like a school assignment, the questions failed, not the boy — and we would like to know, at hello@logotherapist.ai.
The curriculum this belongs to — taught in person, to young men with their fathers present, with a written rule on the wall that the instructor never tells a boy what his purpose is — is at logotherapy.com. The evidence behind the design, at its real strength, is at logotherapist.com.