This collection of Dr Taylor's lectures and essays have been selected from writings that span 50 years. The lectures are dated from 1975 to 1982, whereas the essays are dated 1956, 2004 & 2005. From the lectures any reader will see how closely psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are interlinked, and how the relatively modern profession of counselling can play an important part in the development of human potential. The essays comprise reflections on disturbance in society from two different eras, together with one on the fundamental requirements of training for counsellors.