A vision of a meaningful life -- Factors that impede personal development -- Disrupting fantasy processes -- Challenging addictive, self-nurturing lifestyles -- A feeling versus nonfeeling existence -- Coping with anger, passivity, and a victimized point of view -- Generosity versus withholding -- Challenging self-destructive, microsuicidal, and suicidal tendencies -- Defenses against death anxiety -- Couple relationships -- Sexuality -- Family relationships -- Child-rearing -- Protecting the rights of the individual in couples and families -- Societal forces : malevolent and benevolent -- Psychotherapy : past, present, and future? -- The therapeutic value of friendship -- Spirituality, mystery, and the search for meaning.