In Parts 4 and 5 of this series, I presented several different therapeutic approaches to psychiatric signs, symptoms, and suffering. [It] is obviously not an entity but refers to a fundamental, archetypal function of human experience—an existential reality." May's controversial but clinically useful concept of the daimonic is, it seems to me, much needed in today's psychotherapy. Symptoms and signs are like little invisible demons, devils, or daimones deliberately torturing us. Psychiatric signs and symptoms can be seen as evil insofar as they inflict pain, suffering, and misery on the patient and others around them.