This book is about psychological disorders based on irrational fears - those apparently unmotivated, paralyzing, panic-filled, gut-wrenching fears whose multiplicity and diversity are barely contained in the diagnoses phobias and obsessional disorders. The author, world-renowned therapist Giorgio Nardone, offers a brief (usually less than 20-session) treatment method that leads to a change in the interpersonal, cognitive, and emotional organizations underlying these painful and all-too-common problems. Therapists using a strategic framework focus on reframing patients' representations of self and other, and on changing the relational patterns that sustain fearful perceptions. Based on extensive research and illustrated with in-depth clinical examples, this book offers hope to those whose lives have been unnecessarily limited by their phobias and obsessions.