The voice of Rogers - warm, enthusiastic, full of confidence and interest - is the connecting link of the different essays in this book. We see a person patiently trying, with full control of all his aids, to listen to others and himself. His careful listening is at the service of both the individual and the great question of what it means to become a "person." Describing his clients, Rogers adopts the language and prosody of existentialism. For the struggling person, Rogers writes: "At that moment, the person is only their plea, from beginning to end... because at that moment, the person is their dependency, in a way that astonishes them." [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]