The Pain and Palliative Care Center of the Aretaieio University Hospital, like any pain center, becomes the crossroads where the primal opponents meet: life and death.

In each encounter, there is one winner. The road to the victory of life or the end of death is long, agonizing, and painful.

Through this book, we will follow the true life paths of people who have faced life-threatening illnesses, chronic psychosomatic pain, and other psychological issues. We will explore their therapeutic journey through the eyes and companionship of their traveling psychotherapist.

How does Charis feel and how does he react when he suddenly learns that a life-threatening illness invades his life? Is he searching for ways to escape the illness and seeking hope for life? How does the couple feel and react in the face of the anticipation of a foretold death concerning their teenage son? Is there hope for life, and where can they draw it from? Can young Maya, who suffers from psychosomatic pain, throw away her crutches and stand firmly on her feet again, and how?

Also, what are labels in our lives? Can a person shake them off and live freely? Can the fear and guilt that enter a person's soul become a self-fulfilling prophecy? Can the fear of illness become illness?

With therapeutic approaches such as drama therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy, we trace the power and hope that can emerge even from such difficult situations...