Born in 1898, Paul Tournier died in 1986, shortly after the first edition of this book. The Swiss doctor's books have been translated into many languages, and his work now inspires a new generation of doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists, and health-workers who seek to marry science and faith in their work and in their lives.
Tournier lived and worked in Geneva, Switzerland.

The author of more than twenty best-selling books, he always refused to write an autobiography. This choice of texts in many ways fulfils this function.(Caux reprint)