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Prologue

PART ONE: CONTAINMENT

Chapter 1: Safely and Securely Held and Soothed

Chapter 2: Eleanor Roosevelt and Marie Souvestre: The Search for Safe Harbor

PART TWO: TWINSHIP

Chapter 3: The Thrill of Reciprocity

Chapter 4: Telling Our Stories, Co-creating Ourselves

Chapter 5: Finny and Gene: Doubt, Rivalry, and Intense Contingency

PART THREE: ADVERSITY

Chapter 6: Wrestling with the Angel

Chapter 7: Survivability!

Chapter 8: Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy: The Dilemma of the Noble Adversary

Chapter 9: Adversarial Intelligence: Flexibility, Fluidity, Collaboration, and Good Will

PART FOUR: MIRRORING

Chapter 10: The Self behind the Self, Concealed

Chapter 11: Ghosts of the Past

Chapter 12: The Wish to See and the Wish Not to See

Chapter 13: Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess, and the Urge to Truth

Chapter 14: The Puzzle Solved: Unwinding the Mystery of “Annabel Lee”

PART FIVE: MYSTIC RESONANCE

Chapter 15: Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau, and William Gilpin: The Discovery of a Like-Minded Soul

Chapter 16: The Mystic Friend as Transitional Space

PART SIX: CONSCIOUS PARTNERSHIP

Chapter 17: The “Found Object”

Chapter 18: The Upward Spiral: Joy, Contentment, Interest, and Love

Chapter 19: Victoria and Albert: The Noble Ally

Epilogue

Endnotes

Permissions

Acknowledgments

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