From the author: Written specifically for Worth talking about late clients. This often becomes a problem. Sometimes this problem is hidden behind the client's core symptoms. After all, the person came with worries about divorce or addiction. But I think that in some cases it is necessary to look for a connection between his condition and his attitude towards time. In addition to many differences, we definitely have different perceptions of time. It is difficult for people who suffer and torment others with their tardiness to describe how they perceive the passage of time. Real breakthroughs happen at the end of therapy. One of the clients described what was happening to him this way: “I lived in prostration, in some kind of emptiness. I sat in front of the TV, computer, ate chips, Coca-Cola and stared and stared at the monitor. It seemed to me that there was a lot of time, I still had time to do everything. At other moments I thought about important matters as if I was not yet ready to begin to carry them out, the right moment had not yet arrived.” Of course, such timelessness, loss of the sense of time, can accompany depression and addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). But this is quite manageable. Challenges, rewards, and even short courses of hypnotherapy have been found to be effective in such cases. I think we shouldn’t be led by clients’ problems, and most of us don’t do this; we shouldn’t reason according to the principle “the customer is always right” (“the customer is always right”) in the case of the ingrained manipulations of unfortunate neurotics. I book chronically late clients last. Thus, shortening the session due to its disorganization makes the psychologist’s fate easier. Less work at the end of the day. Psychologist, take care of yourself! Evgeniy Ugushev