Robert D. Stolorow is a Founding Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2011) and Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections (Routledge, 2007) and co-author of eight other books.

George E. Atwood is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University and a Founding Member of Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York, USA. He is the author of The Abyss of Madness (Routledge, 2011) and co-author of 7 other books with Robert D. Stolorow. Both he and Stolorow have been absorbed for nearly five decades in the project of rethinking psychoanalysis as a form of phenomenological inquiry.

Preface CHAPTER 1: The Phenomenological Circle and the Unity of Life and Thought CHAPTER 2: Seeds of Psychoanalytic Phenomenology: A Formative Clinical Experience CHAPTER 3: CredöPhenomenological Explorations and Reflections CHAPTER 4: CredöIntersubjective-Systems Theory: A Phenomenological-Contextualist Perspective CHAPTER 5: Emotional Disturbance, Trauma, and Authenticity: A Phenomenological-Contextualist Perspective CHAPTER 6: The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphysicalizing of the Real CHAPTER 7: Experiencing Selfhood Is Not "a Self" CHAPTER 8: Phenomenology and Metaphysical Realism CHAPTER 9: Phenomenological Contextualism and the Finitude of Knowing CHAPTER 10: Walking the Tightrope of Emotional Dwelling CHAPTER 11: There Must Be Blood: The Price of Emotional Dwelling CHAPTER 12: Concluding Dialogue