Not all interviews are easy to conduct. This section concerns the types of interviews which inexperienced interviewers find most anxiety provoking and troublesome. One way of understanding why these interviews are difficult is that there are hard-to-reconcile differences between the professional's and the patient's agendas. Once these differences are recognised, it may be possible to fully or partially resolve them. What is quite certain is that difficult interviews can only be successful when the interviewer has a clear understanding of the patient's likely motivations and points of view.