The rigorous scientific method can rarely be presented as vividly, vividly and clearly as in the book by the famous psychotherapist Jay Haley. A young man suffering from a severe speech impediment and a woman constantly washing her hands; a young man who considers himself a writer and is unable to write a single line, and a child who falls into hysterics at the slightest remark... Psychotherapy helped them all get rid of their problems through a difficult ordeal and they are all the non-fictional heroes of this book. Each of the twelve stories is based on a real case. The book will provide psychologists and psychotherapists with another professional tool. And the non-professional reader, quite possibly, will see in the problems of this or that character a reflection of his own difficulties, and in stories of healing - ways to overcome them.