Roy Moodley was born and raised in South Africa, but spent just as many years in England. He now lives and works in Toronto, Canada as a university teacher and researcher. Colin Lago is an well known independent practitioner, trainer and a Fellow of BACP. Anissa Talahite teaches and researches at the University of Toronto.

This is an ambitious and courageous book - Though the starting point of the book is two brief interactions between two individuals, its scope is as broad as humanity. The book itself is a case study of intellectual honesty and racial sensitivity. It is the most important discussion of race, culture and ethnicity in the context of person-centred therapy ever written. Tony Merry, University of East London.

• PART 1. REVIEW OF 'THE RIGHT TO BE DESPERATE' AND 'ON ANGER AND HURT' 1. Summary of 'The Right to be Desperate' Christine Clarke and Michael Goldman 2. Summary of 'On Anger and Hurt' Debora C. Brink and Debra Rosenzweig 3. Looking Back 'On Anger and Hurt' Roy Moodley PART 2 ANALYSIS AND CLINICAL REFLECTIONS OF THE THERAPY 4a. Uncharacteristic Directiveness: Rogers and the 'On Anger and Hurt' Client Barbara Temaner Brodley 4b. 2004 Postscript to 'Uncharacteristic Directiveness' Barbara Temaner Brodley 5. Carl Rogers' Verbal Responses in 'On Anger and Hurt': Content Analysis and Clinical Reflections Germain Lietaer 6. Rogerian Empathic Listening: Applying Conversation Analysis to 'The Right to be Desperate' Session Catrin S. Rhys, W. R. Selwyn Black and Shauna Savage PART 3 RACE AND CULTURE IN PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING 7. Considerations of Race and Culture in the Practice of Non-Directive Client-Centered Therapy Sharon Mier and Marge Witty 8. 'The Right to be Desperate' and 'On Anger and Hurt' in the Presence of Carl Rogers Roy Moodley, Geraldine Shipton and Graham Falken 9. Double-Edged Sword: Power and Person-Centred Counselling Khatidja Chantler 10. The Person-Centred Challenge: Cultural Difference and the Core Conditions Christine Clarke 11. Cross-Racial/Cultural Matching: Three Approaches to Working Transculturally Shukla Dhingra and Richard Saxton 12. Growing Race Awareness in the Therapist Colin Lago and Jean Clark 13. Using the Videotapes of the Sessions to Examine Ways of Helping Counsellors to Work with the Person-Centred Approach in a Transcultural Setting Mary Charleton and Melanie Lockett PART 4 VIEWS FROM OTHER PERSPECTIVES 14. 'On Anger and Hurt' Sessions: A Narrative Social Constructionist Perspective John McLeod 15. Points of Departure: A Humanistic-Spiritual View William West 16. Horizons of Alienation: Culture and Hermeneutics Susan James and Gary Foster 17. Therapist's Faces, Client's Masks: Racial Enactments through Pain, Anger and Hurt Anissa Talahite and Roy Moodley PART 5 PERSONAL REFLECTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS 18. Twenty-First Century Reflections on 'The Right to be Desperate' and 'On Anger and Hurt' Courtland Lee 19. A Credit to One's Self, One's Race and One's Community William A. Hall 20. The 'Armour-Plated Man' in Cross-Racial Counselling Josna Pankhania 21. The Man He Has Become Stephen Whitehead 22. 'Tripping' in 'The Right to be Desperate' and 'On Anger and Hurt' Gella Richards 23. Multiple Interpretations: Stories, Lies and Videotapes Will Stillwell PART 6 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS 4. Interview with Carl Rogers on the Use of Self in Therapy Michele Baldwin 25. Carl Rogers on Multicultural Counselling: Excerpts from letters from Carl Rogers to Jean Clark, 1979-1983 Colin Lago