Eugene Heimler's self-help method of social functioning has been developedand tested - and proved extraordinarily successful - for over forty years. Here hedescribes in detailed theory and through cases his interviewing and therapeutictechniques, in which a relationship of equality between 'helper' and 'helped' isparamount.His aim has been to help people as individuals and in groups to make the most oftheir abilities, however latent, and to use positively their inner resources and pastexperience. He sees not only the past as influencing the present but present actionsdetermining what we select from the past. Success or failure to function withinourselves and in society depends on the balance between satisfaction, definedas the ability to use one's potential, and frustration, defined as one's inability touse it. Too little frustration can be as damaging as too much to function normallywe constantly transform frustration into satisfaction. In other words, success isone's ability to trans