Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-324) and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I: HUDDLING TOGETHER IN THE FACE OF DEATH -- 1 Death, Meaning, and Human Relations 3 -- 2 Conscience and the Ethic of Mutuality: Human Development as a Passionate Labor of Gratitude 35 -- PART II: DISILLUSIONMENT, DEFENSE, AND THE DESPAIR OF BITTERNESS -- 3 Selling One's Developmental Soul: Self-Betrayal and Wearing the Mask of the Enemy 57 -- 4 The Compulsion to Repeat: Homesickness and to Begin Again as if for the First Time 87 -- 5 The Silent Loyalty Oath: Symptoms as Memorials to One's Lonely Suffering 109 -- 6 On the outside Looking in: "Waiting at the End of the Block" and the Sense of Entitlement 135 -- 7 The Evil Eye: Envy and Begrudging the Passion of a New Beginning 159 -- 8 Giving the Devil His Due: Spite and the Struggle for Individual Dignity 191 -- PART III: PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE QUEST FOR SELF-ACCEPTANCE -- 9 Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: The Idealizing Transference and the Search for -- a Powerful Other 213 -- 10 Confidence and Doubt: The Therapist's Sense of Lovingness and the Use of the Personal -- in Psychotherapy 241 -- 11 Haunting Echoes of Personal Truth: The Pangs of Regret and Remorse 267 -- 12 Self-Acceptance and the Generosity of Letting Go: The Experiences of Mourning -- and Growth 293.