Even though it's quite academic and metaphysical, I thought this paper on Heidegger on historicality and social phenomenology might provoke some thought. It deals with a small piece of the question of what distinguishes real existential or social philosophy from Dr. Phil psychology on societal scale. In other words, how can you be sure your philosophical social or cultural analysis really strikes the core of the lifeforms you describe.
For the real philosophy fans I found the 1947 letter exchange between Marcuse and Heiddegger on the internet. These letters shed a great light on the pain thinkers like Marcuse, Arendt, and Sartre must have felt to see their philosophical mentor embrace Nazism.
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