May's gives a brief and clear overview of counseling. He discusses how personality problems and neuroticism stem from the lack of adjustment in the personality. He covers some personality theory with ideas from Freud, Jung, and Adler and how these ideas guide how a counselor can help a client. Next, he covers the key to counseling: emapathy. In the second section, he discusses guidelines, not absolute rules, about reading character in terms of nonverbal communication and family backgrounds. He also talks about how to set up effective counseling programs and a bit of logistics. An important part of the counseling process he covers is the confession of the client, and how a counselor can help the client's interpretation of their confession. In transforming personality, a counselor must not give advice, but suggest and direct the client to creative and constructive outlets. In the third section, May writes counselors must understand themselves. As for morals and counseling, instinctual urges shouldn't be deemed immoral, but accepted and used constructively in self-expression and guided by a universal structure which May argues is religion. And finally, May writes about relgion being used neurotically in separating oneself from others, and how it should be used to form closer attachments with others. I didn't particularly agree with his view on using Christianity as the sole guiding structure, though I see its value and agree that self-expression should be directed with a structure, but a subjective, unique structure which can accomodate those with diverse belief systems. Regardless, May's humanistic and existential ideas have implications for personal growth.