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While psychotherapists discuss amongst themselves and in supervision the struggles they experience facetoface with their patients, empirical study of therapists' experience of psychotherapy has been scant and there has been little investigation of therapists' difficulties. We require tools for such investigation and in this initial report we describe the development of a taxonomy of situations that psychotherapists experience as difficult and indicate lines of research to which the taxonomy might be applied. We also suggest that our procedure might serve as a model of collective selfstudy for other groups of practitionerresearchers. Using accounts of our own difficulties as therapists, we constructed a consensual set of experiential categories that could be applied to describe them. These were designated as Therapist (T)Incompetent, TDamaging, TPuzzled, TThreatened, TOut of Rapport, T's Personal Issues …