Summary: This is a super book, and I wish I had discovered it earlier, both for myself and for my patients. It was actually recommended to me by one of those patients, after it had transformed her life in a way that neither my help, nor that of our clinical psychologist, had succeeded in doing. Such was her enthusiasm that she not only gave me the details, but was generous enough to arrange for a copy to arrive on my desk a few days later. And who could resist even the inside front cover, which lists such intriguing gems as Distant Elephants, the case of Italian wines, Bury the Judge, and How to get rid of 90% of your worries. I turned to Distant Elephants first to read a highly relevant vignette about the risks inherent in accepting undesirable or unwanted commitments (a lecture in Edinburgh, in this case!) just because they happen to be a year ahead. The take-home message is \'From far away, even elephants look small; but when you come up close, they are as large as they always are.