The book by Clu Madanes, a famous American family therapist, is dedicated to strategic family therapy, looking at the patient's problems from the point of view of the family as a whole. The presentation of theoretical aspects and therapeutic strategies is illustrated with detailed descriptions of clinical cases, allowing step by step to trace the intense dramaturgy of psychotherapeutic action and the search for ways to help a specific family. This book is about power and interpersonal influence in relationships between family members, between therapist and client, as well as about ways of mutual help and protection. It is addressed primarily to family therapists, psychologists and specialists in the “helping” professions. But since everyone goes through “family universities,” it is useful for the widest readership to get acquainted with it.