In a good work, the characters are depicted so accurately that they seem like real people. At the will of the author, they encounter difficulties, face moral choices, risk their health and even their lives. What if literary heroes of the past and present, who suffered a tragic failure, turned to a psychotherapist in time? Would parenting counseling have saved Oedipus the King's parents from disaster? Would the story of Romeo and Juliet have turned out differently if they were older? Maybe those around him didn’t understand Dracula, and they didn’t like Voldemort as a child? Do the erotic fantasies of Christian Gray in Fifty Shades of Gray mean he lacks masculinity? The book's authors, a literary critic and psychiatrist, subjected some famous characters in fiction to psychological analysis to understand what explains their failures, what quirks and problems are universal to everyone, and which ones are determined by the era.