About the book: 2019 / The book was written by a psychotherapist specializing in crisis psychotherapy. The author describes various options for a psychological crisis and provides a crisis therapy program he developed, adapted for each life stage from childhood to old age. Simple tests and individualized recommendations will help the reader to objectively assess psychological problems - their own or a loved one's - and resolve them, independently or with the help of a specialist. Students and practicing professionals (psychologists, doctors, teachers, social workers) will find in the book the most up-to-date data on crisis conditions and psychological methods of their prevention and correction.G. V. Starshenbaum – psychiatrist-psychotherapist of the highest category, candidate of medical sciences, professor at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, author of several educational and practical manuals on psychotherapy.