Never before has there been such a coprehensie book on one of our most comon afflictions: Procrastination. Phychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen have offered a probing, sensitive, and sometimes humorous look at a problem that afects nearly everyone-from students to scientists, secretaries to vice-presidents. The authors base their advice on firsthand experience counseling a wide range of procrastination from the mild to the chronic. They begin their book with an indepth examination of the reasons why we put things off - the fears of failure, sucess, control, seperatio, and attachment- and look at the sources of these fears in our family, school, and work experiences.