The Faddeev equations [59] were first written to handle scattering problems in momentum space with short-range potentials. We shall show below that they can be adapted to describe, in configuration space, bound states produced by confining potentials. In nuclear physics, one is dealing with rather delicate potentials, with sharp variations and strong spin dependence. The difficulty in computing the three-nucleon properties very accurately has led to (friendly but) animated controversies between the school of Faddeev equations and the school of hyperspherical expansion and other variational methods. With the simple potentials used in baryon spectroscopy, both approaches lead to very accurate results, so that the choice between them is mostly a matter of taste [60]. The method of Faddeev equations was applied to baryon spectroscopy for instance in Ref. [61].