Famous psychotherapist, head of the Center for Social and Psychological Assistance "Security Certificate," author of the books "Behavior Therapy," "Pledge of the Possibility of Existence," "Active Depression. The Good Power of Longing," "Healing by Selfishness. Find your flock," "Weekday morning," "Mastering loneliness. What they are silent about to their loved ones," the host of the author's radio and television programs "Conversations with Pokrass" and "Open Door," in which he seriously, without flirting with the reader and listener, talks about complex human problems and ways to solve them. This book can be read from anywhere, opening at the right time the chapter or page where your problem, your pain or your question is indicated. At first she was slandered, this life-affirming book, and only then she was written. It was used in cycles of copyright radio and television programs, based on which short, often several lines, but extremely deep and capacious texts were later recorded. These short "essays," "psychological miniatures," "sketches of a psychotherapist" - call it whatever you like - are able to give an open and thoughtful reader answers to the most difficult questions and suggest a way out of a seemingly insoluble life situation. Books by Mikhail Lvovich Pokrass are always a surprise. At a bare minimum. He says and writes things that you often strongly disagree with. Because if you agree, you will have to reconsider many failures of the established ideas about life, about relationships and, ultimately, about yourself. And to understand that even you know nothing about yourself, you use myths as a guide to life. And learn to re-meet yourself, with men and women, parents, children... This is difficult, and for many, impossible. But for those who are ready to listen and hear, and most importantly, sympathize with themselves and others, a new, previously unknown, real world of people opens up.