ABSTRACT
The book you have in hand, dear reader, is a full-length volume of stories by therapists about the pleasures, joys, and satisfactions that help to inspire and renew the therapists' passion for their work. In essence, we are in the business of going into small rooms with unhappy people and trying to talk them out of it. It can be very fulfilling, but the work is not easy. As Hippocrates (c. 460–377 bce) advised long ago:
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. The physician must be ready, not only to do his [sic] duty himself, but also to secure the cooperation of the patient, of the attendants, and of externals.
