The seven essays were written between 1989 and 2007 and published in peer-reviewed journals between 1995 and 2008, with the exception of "Eros in Existential Analysis," which was given as an invited lecture at the annual International Human Science Research Conference at Ramapo College. All have been revised for this collection. The concluding chapter contains a series of notes on therapeutic phenomenology from 2015-2016 on the existential approach to therapy.