"Ron Roberts presents in this important collection of previously published essays, spanning from 1990 till the present, a rich harvest of professionally gained insights. When he brings in the arguments, approaches and aims of Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing and Svetlana Boym (among others), he reflects on their similarities, as well as diverging approaches to the alleviation of mental distress. He appeals to us readers to accept the idiosyncrasies of thoughts, experience and habits of others, as long as they do not infringe on our way of living, and "for the freedom to be different and to take charge of one's own life, free from the machinations of state sponsored psychiatric interference." Fun, love, liberty, justice, freedom, and openness are modes of being supporting an off-modern psychology, an approach favoured by the author. His late friend, Svetlana Boym, formed the frame and Roberts shepherds us to accept and deal with the complexity of being in the world." Theodor Itten Psychotherapist, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).