Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Part 1. Philosophical Context and Basic Concepts. Intersubjectivity: I. The Therapeutic Situation. Intersubjectivity: II. Development and Pathogenesis. Pathways of Concretization. Concluding Remarks. Part 2. Legacies of the Golden Age: A Memoir of a Collaboration. The Demons of Phenomenological Contextualism: A Conversation. The Tagic and the Metaphysical in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Conclusions.

George E. Atwood is Professor of Clinical Psychology (Emeritus), Rutgers University, USA, and Founding Faculty Member, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York. He is author of The Abyss of Madness(Routledge, 2011), and coauthor of Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 1987), Contexts of Being (Analytic Press, 1992), Faces in a Cloud (Jason Aronson, 1993), and Working Intersubjectively (Analytic Press, 1997).

Robert D. Stolorow is a Founding Faculty Member, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, and Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York. He is 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 coauthor of five other books with George Atwood.

This contains new chapters tracing the development of the authors' thinking over decades and explores the personal origins of their essential ideas.