In 180 pages, Battino describes how he used the power of expectation in his therapy with clients, working as if each session were the last. After presenting the basic outline of how he works, he details, chapter by chapter, specific therapeutic approaches that he personally finds most useful. These include rapport, hypnotic language, metaphor and hypnosis, solution-oriented approaches, narrative therapy, Ericksonian very brief therapy, Haley's ordeal therapy, Burns's nature-guided therapy, Kopp's metaphor therapy, Rossi's rapid methods, NLP approaches and provocative therapy.