Of course, if we were fortunate enough to have supportive parents, then we have the advantage of receiving beneficial messages from a young age: "You can be who you are." "You can think what you think." "You can feel what you feel." "You can take your own risks." "You must search for what you need on your own, because that is what growing up means, being mature and self-reliant." These privileged children jump off the trampoline and dive into life from a favorable point. Naturally, not everyone in the world is that lucky. Those who were not so fortunate will need someone to help them, even if it's just a book like this one.

Following the international (and Greek) bestsellers: "Let Me Tell You a Story," "Stories to Think About," and "Rely on Me," Opera Publications continues to release the works of Jorge Bucay with "The Path to Self-Reliance," the first of a series of four volumes that are the "Travel Papers" of the popular Argentine psychiatrist. In his "Travel Papers," the psychiatrist-psychotherapist overshadows the narrator. The advisory role that constitutes Bucay's main professional engagement takes up more space as, in the search for a hidden meaning, not only a story is required, but also a theoretical background that is provided to the reader for the first time here.

Indeed, in the previous three books of his that have been published in Greek, we had come to know Bucay as a storyteller, discussant, and professional user of parables in his therapy with patients, but we missed Bucay the doctor, the scientist with a clarified view of life and his science, who in "The Path to Self-Reliance" decides to reveal himself. However, he does not create a "theoretical text," but merely exposes his views on what has allowed him to navigate through his life as a psychotherapist. He lays out his maps, his "Travel Papers," as he would in a friendly conversation where he would answer the question: "Who are you, doctor, and how do you think?"