Rebecca Klott, PhD, is a licensed counseling psychologist. She is the founder and president of River City Psychological Services, a group practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She also writes psychologically focused fictional works.

Richard Raubolt is a licensed clinical psychologist and board-certified psychoanalyst. He has written three books, published over 30 professional papers, and produced five films on the intersection of applied psychoanalysis and social-cultural issues. In over 45 years of practice, Richard has presented his work nationally and internationally.

Loray Daws is a registered clinical psychologist in South Africa and British Columbia, Canada. He is currently in private practice and serves as a senior faculty member at the International Masterson Institute and as a board member and teaching faculty at the Object Relations Institute in New York. Loray specializes in psychoanalysis and Dasein analysis and is the author and editor of eight books on psychoanalysis and existential analysis.

Forward by Rachel Newcombe

Letter to the reader

Chapter One, The Beginning

Chapter Two, Attachment Part One

Chapter Three, Attachment Part Two

Chapter Four, A Whole New Way of Reliving Trauma

Chapter Five, The PhD Program Years

Chapter Six, And, Again

Chapter Seven, Living with the Possibility of Goodbye and Post-Traumatic Growing

Chapter Eight, Interview with Loray Daws

Chapter Nine, On Ontological survival and the children of the second birth