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Narrative theory is in the process of claiming its rightful place in the multimodel clinical world, and James P. Gustafson (1986) faithful to the pioneering and adventurous spirit of The Complex Secret of Psychotherapy, is a perfect guide to help this process along. He does this in a small volume engagingly capturing in its title the central problem of our time—how to gain and maintain Self-Delight in a Harsh World. In spite of the organization of the book into four sections, it is really a free-flowing, rather than tightly or systematically organized, book; and its flow is not linear but circular, the author repeatedly coming back to similar ideas from different angles. Matching medium to message, the book is full of stories: case vignettes from the author's individual, couple, and occasional family clinical practice or from his own life; anecdotes, fairy tales, legends, metaphors; and epigraphs drawn from world literature. The stories are sometimes sad, often whimsical, or shocking or amazing. Gustafson also employs charts and drawings to highlight his message of “narrative psychiatry.” He introduces, for example, a delightful drawing from The Little Prince to illustrate the three main schools into which he divides current psychiatry. There is, first, the School of Objective Psychiatry, which looks only at surfaces. Proponents of this school will mistake the drawing for an old hat, fix it with medication, and see nothing inside it. The School of Subjective Psychiatry will notice that the contours of the hat are really an elephant, and its