A practical guide explaining who really needs to see a doctor—and who can manage with tea with chamomile before bed.
When the idea of writing this book first took clear shape, “couch experts” who are legion among the blog’s readers became unusually excited. And through simple cell division, they split into two camps.
The “latent paranoids” camp cried out that the doctor was crafty: he would sow seeds of doubt and implant worms of uncertainty into unsteady minds—then he would go out and collect patients by the bunch! The “academic snobs” camp raised their pinkies, twisted their mouths, and said through that crookedness—well, this is just another guide for beginners, ugh, how awful! We’ll end up with quantum mechanics for beginners!
But the doctor, taking the most ardent ones on his clipboard, simply wrote about neuroses. For whom? For those whom they torment—so as to slightly clear up the fog of terminology and the myths that constantly accompany this topic. And for those starting their path in psychiatry—so that they have something like a simple, understandable guide, written without brain-melting terminology and deceptive theorizing in lofty theoretical realms.