A mass psychosis begins in a regular kindergarten. An unremarkable-looking girl discovers she has the gift of comforting and calming other children. A private detective is looking for the owner of a lost horse. An adult woman mathematician suddenly finds out she was adopted as an infant. Is this a retelling of several episodes of a new popular series? No, these are life cases that Ekaterina Murashova, a Saint Petersburg psychologist, hears every day during consultations at a city polyclinic. Every day, moms and dads, grandmothers and grandfathers, adults and teenagers come to the psychologist’s office with their stories, complaints, and life dilemmas, write letters, and ask questions in the blog on the Snob portal. Every day Ekaterina Murashova finds answers with them to complex life questions and then writes books based on her consultations. Readers await these books with the same impatience as new episodes of a popular series. Ekaterina Murashova (born 1962) is a graduate of Leningrad State University, where she first graduated from the Biology Faculty and then from the Psychology Faculty. She traveled across the entire country on scientific expeditions, from Kamchatka to the White Sea, worked in a zoo and a circus (with animals), at the Department of Embryology of LSU, at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, participated in the “Doctors of the World” program — working with socially disadvantaged children. Currently, she works at one of the district children's polyclinics in Saint Petersburg and writes psychology books for parents and stories and novellas for their children. Since 2008, she has maintained her own blog on the Snob project website. Laureate of the “Favorite Dream” award in 2005 (novella “Correction Class”) and 2007 (novella “Guard of Anxiety”). In 2010, Murashova was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren International Literary Prize.