Medicine of the Person is not just another branch of medicine. It is an attitude towards contact, an approach to patient-care, applicable in all areas. It puts the emphasis on awareness of patients as whole persons, with places in their community and society. Both the organic and the psychological approach are integral parts of Medicine of the Person, as is consideration of the connection between state of health, life events, social insertion and spirituality.

I can speak endlessly of myself, to myself or to someone else, without ever succeeding in giving a complete and truthful picture of myself... The same thing happens with all these people who come to see me, and take so much trouble over their efforts to describe themselves to me with strict accuracy; inevitably I form an image of them which derives as much from myself as from them. If they go and see one of my colleagues he will certainly not see them exactly as I do. And they for their part will not show themselves to him in the same way they show themselves to me.

The reader will see now why it is that this problem of the person has for twenty years been of such absorbing interest to me. It has a general significance which is of vital importance for all thought and civilization: what is man? But it also has a particular significance, which is equally important for my own life: who am I, really, myself?

That you say as a theologian that I am a universalist is evident, in the sense that I believe that Jesus was sent into the world to save the sinners that we all are. This is what I understand Saint Paul to say when he mentions that sin has entered the world through one man, Adam, and spread to all men, and that he calls Jesus the second Adam through Whom redemption entered the world for all men, and even as he says 'all of creation,' that the redemption of Christ is the victory of God over the Fall. I believe that this great plan of salvation is universal, concerns not only all men but the universality of the world and that Jesus on the Cross has accomplished this Salvation, this reconciliation of men with God, that the 'chastisement' as Isaiah says is fallen upon Him to free men from the malediction of the Fall. This plan of God therefore seems to be collective, global, universal.

He [Paul Tournier] was the pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy. Psychotherapy should also have a spiritual dimension, dealing with each person in his or her uniqueness and individuality. Psychotherapy cannot be personal enough.

• The Paul Tournier Institute, a division of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA). The Paul Tournier Institute is an educational endeavor, providing unique resources developed and published by the CMDA.
• Association Paul Tournier, a non-profit organization promoting ideas of Paul Tournier.
• International Group of Medicine of the Whole Person, an organization dedicated to furthering the Medicine of the Whole Person through annual meetings.
• In 2006 Christianity Today magazine listed Paul Tournier's The Meaning of Persons as one of the top 50 books that have influenced the way Evangelicals think, talk, witness, worship, and live.

• The Healing of Persons
• Escape from Loneliness (De la solitude à la communauté, Delachaux & Niestlé, Neuchâtel / Paris, 1943/1948)
• The Person Reborn
• The Whole Person in a Broken World
• The Strong and the Weak
• A Doctor's Casebook in the Light of the Bible (Bible et Médecine, Delachaux & Niestlé, Neuchâtel / Paris)
• The Frontier between Psychotherapy and Soul-healing
• The Meaning of Persons (Le personage et la personne, Delachaux & Niestlé)
• Guilt and Grace
• The Meaning of Gifts
• The Seasons of Life
• To Resist or to Surrender?
• To Understand Each Other
• Toward a Christian Anthropology
• Fatigue in Modern Society
• Secrets
• The Adventure of Living (L'Aventure de la Vie, Delachaux et Niestlé, Neuchâtel et Paris, 1965)
• Forgiveness and Mental Health
• What is Mental Health?
• The Person in an Age of Conformity" in Are You Nobody?
• A Place for You (L'Homme et son lieu, Delachaux et Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1966)
• A Dialogue between Doctor and Patient
• Listen to God
• There's a New World Coming
• Learn to Grow Old
• My Religious Vocation as Physician
• The Naming of Persons
• The Gift of Feeling
• The Meaning of Possessiveness
• A Tournier Companion