The book by Giorgio Nardone and Paul Watzlawick has been translated from Italian into all major foreign languages - it is published in Russian for the first time. It is a classic of short-term therapy and a strategic approach, the so-called “problem solving”, which in recent years has found wide application in the field psychology and related fields: entrepreneurial, pedagogical, social.

The significant success of the book is explained by the fact that it proposed a psychotherapeutic model that has proven itself to be the fastest and most effective approach to solving psychological problems of various kinds, namely phobic and obsessive states, panic attacks, eating disorders, etc.

The strategic approach to psychotherapy outlined in the book is a development of a systematic approach in symbiosis with Milton Erickson's hypnotherapy. Such a model for quickly solving individual and family problems, as well as partnership problems, is applicable not only in clinical cases, but also in the broader context of interpersonal relationships.

The book is intended for psychotherapists, psychologists and doctors, for students of the abovementioned specialties, as well as for readers interested in problems of self-development.