Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic method based on mutual trust and a commitment to truth. This includes the patient's willingness to open up, to share their existing suffering and personal grief, and to trust that the other person, the psychoanalyst, will handle this trust well. Sieglinde Tömmel explains why we fear psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud, and what it means to engage with psychoanalysis. How and why psychoanalysis heals thus becomes an exciting journey into our inner world and into our culture of psychological understanding. "In doing so, Tömmel has achieved a rare feat: presenting a book that conveys psychoanalysis at a high level in a way that is accessible to the general public." (Manfred Endres, Psyche).