Ross Channing Reed is a lecturer in philosophy at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Philosophy, Philosophical Counseling, and the Precarious Nature of Modern LivingPart I. Systemic Precarity, Stress, and TraumaChapter 1 What is Precarity?Chapter 2 Precarity, Terror, Stress, and Trauma Part II. Empirical and Conceptual Evidence Linking Systemic Precarity and TraumaChapter 3 Surveillance, Anxiety, and the Futilitarian Entrapment of a Gamed System Chapter 4 Global Annihilation, the Gig Economy, Climate Change, and Desecuritization Part III. Precarity and Trauma in Philosophical CounselingChapter 5 Loneliness, Despair, Chronic Pain, and the Auto-Aggressive Entrepreneurial SelfChapter 6 Addiction, Burnout, and the Impossibility of Consent Chapter 7 Trauma Bonding and the Stockholm Syndrome as Affect Management Chapter 8 Pathological Accommodation and the Boundless Trauma of Hemorrhagic NihilismPart IV. Metaphysical Horror and Precaritization Trauma: Philosophical and Systemic Nihilism and the Quest for Immortality Chapter 9 Metaphysical Horror, Addiction, Hemorrhagic Nihilism, and the Simulacra of the Spectacle Chapter 10 Psychedelics, Ultrarunning, Metaphysical Horror, and Addiction to Synthetic AffectChapter 11 Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, Love: The God Project or the Moral Call of the Other? BibliographyIndex

Reed has made an invaluable contribution to our understanding and healing of systemically-induced illnesses afflicting the developed world. He insightfully examines crises of precarity, stress, trauma, addiction, and meaninglessness that have attained epidemic proportions in our most affluent and technologically-advanced societies. This timely and well-written book provides perceptive analyses of the systemic problems from which these crises arise and propagate. Moreover, it also reinstates the central place of philosophy and its practice as a way of transcending the dehumanizing effects of mechanized health-care, among other soulless institutional providers of essential services.