Hans Holzer's "How to Cope with Problems"

Time flies. I'm only now getting around to the first Hans Holzer book of 2025. That last one was Ghosts of the Golden West in December, and that post also has a directory of previous Holzer posts. 

• Title: How to Cope with Problems
• Additional cover text: "Stop being a victim! Take charge of your life!"
• Author: Hans Holzer (1920-2009)
• Publisher: Pyramid (A3659)
• Publication date: November 1976
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 205
• Cover price: $1.50
• What problems are addressed? (Deep breath) Accidents, aging process, alcoholism, allergies, animals, attackers and interlopers, attention, children, confinement, criminal tendencies, criticism, death, delays, dietary problems, divorce, doubts, drugs, embarrassment, extravagance, failure, fame and infamy, fashions and clothes, fears, financial problems, foreign languages, fraud, gambling, generation problems, guilt feelings, hostility, household drudgery, inferiority complexes, illness, jealousy, job problems, love & loneliness & marriage problems & rejection & sex problems (all lumped together under "Love"), melancholia and depressions, personality changes, prejudices, psychic experiences, responsibility, shyness, sleeplessness and smoking.
• Is there a chapter on coping with presidents? Not specifically.
• Dedication: "To my many friends, that they may rarely need this book, and to my few enemies, that they may profit from it."
• Excerpt from Chapter I: "Presumably, in the Garden of Eden problems as we understand the word today did not exist. That is, until the well known incident with the apple and the serpent. In a problem-free world, there exists neither stress nor turmoil."
• Holzer on coping with animals: "Domestic animals ... not only need care in feeding, they need love and understanding of their needs on all levels. Animals may not be able to to express themselves elaborately through speech, but they are possessed of basic instincts which tell them pretty much the same things a sentence of speech conveys. If you feel love toward them, they can sense it, if they reject them, they know that, too."
• Holzer on coping with household drudgery: "If you still feel frustrated and angry at having to perform your household duties, look at them not as drudges but as your contribution toward the whole family. As you clean the floors of your home, remind yourself that it is your home, which contains so much of your personality, so much that you have contributed in terms of decoration, in terms of your own emotions."
• Holzer on coping with death: "But as the legend of 'Death in Samara' teaches, there is no escape from death, so we might as well not worry about it. If death is to find the individual at any given moment, he will find him whether he is on the ground or in the air, standing on a ladder or walking down the street."
• Reviews: None, really. I don't think Holzer's books were as popular when they weren't about ghosts, witches or other supernatural stuff. But he could definitely churn them out, especially in the 1970s, and publishers seemed willing to publish them on his name value alone. Most of his advice in the book is practical and commonsense, but I don't think his readers were looking for him to be Dear Abby.

Phantom's biggest problem is her brother Bandit.