<P>People can become stuck in many ways and for a wide variety of reasons explains the author of Fatal Pauses, that rare book that both clinicians and general readers can benefit from and enjoy. Novelistic in its depictions of composite patients but clear-eyed in its analysis, the book offers the author's innovative "3-D method" of becoming unstuck. The process of discovering why one is stuck, deciding to become unstuck, and then asserting the discipline required to do so is brought to vivid life by one of the most respected psychiatrists of our day.</P><P>The book's structure is logical and engaging: ? The evolutionary and neurobiological reasons why so many of us become stuck in dysfunctional or unsatisfying relationships, jobs, behavioral patterns and ineffective attempts at remediation.? The "Am I Stuck? Scale" that can be self-administered by general readers or administered by clinicians to their patients.? Common ways in which people become stuck including being trapped by career choices, limited and endangered by obesity, paralyzed by an unsatisfying marriage, wasting time on the internet or playing video games, incapacitated by addiction, and imprisoned by the need to please.? The innovative "3-D method" of getting unstuck which is presented in a systematic, easy-to-comprehend and apply manner.? Riveting case examples that make up the heart of the book. Novelistic in presentation, these case studies are not mere summaries, but vivid clinical descriptions that bring to life the pain, frustrations, and dangers of being stuck as well as life-renewing freedom of becoming unstuck. </P><P>Written in a warm and disarming style, Fatal Pauses is sure to find a home in clinicians' libraries and on family room bookshelves.</P>