For Rotenberg, a personas life becomes the atext,a subject to being read and interpreted. If that person wishes to change his or her behavior through psychotherapy, then a hermeneutic system must be employed to understand that personas life. However, many systems interpret a personas life according to the particular theory espoused by the therapist. Rotenberg, in contrast, introduces a balanced theory bridging the rational and the irrational. Between Rationality and Irrationality emphasizes that it is more important for a therapist to learn his clientas own alanguagea than to impose his own doctrinaire interpretation.