A manual is sanctified to psychotherapy work with the psychological phenomenon, distinguished and described by an author - empty effort . Empty effort consists in an attempt arbitrarily to manage involuntary psychical activity. Illustrated how empty effort participates in forming of the different negative experiencing both healthy and abnormal psychology. Shown, that empty effort is always related to feeling to the heartache and by strong psychological tension. Psychotherapy methods able to deactivate empty efforts and to render a rapid anaesthetic effect the same are examined. A book is written as the lectures, read in the mixed audience consisting of psychologists and psychiatrists.