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Editor's Note: This paper was presented by one of America's foremost existential psychologists, Ernest Keen, at the 2000 APA Convention in Washington DC. It was presented in a two-man symposium (chaired by Louise Sundararajan) that also featured the late Theodore Sarbin, one of the great narrative psychologists of our time. The simplicity with which Keen reframes both depression and anxiety, utilizing a Heideggerian (and Husserlian) appreciation of temporality within which to situate experiences of sadness and fear, is truly illuminating. We are presenting here for the first time the full and unedited transcript of the reading draft of Ernie's final paper presentation at APA. He would make one more appearance at APA, a year later in San Francisco, to accept the Rollo May Award 'given to an individual for independent and outstanding pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology.' Those of us who knew Ernie can almost hear him speaking to us in the simple rhetoric of his address in this symposium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]