Taking time to consider times in psychotherapy: multiple views. Cover Image

Un răgaz de cugetare a timpului în psihoterapie: abordări diverse.
Taking time to consider times in psychotherapy: multiple views.

Author(s): Hugh Jenkins
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Asociatia DIANOIA
Keywords: time and change; psychodynamic and systemic psychotherapy; the instant and the Now; philosophy; anthropology

Summary/Abstract: Time is often taken as a given in psychotherapy, as in much of daily life. How much do we think about this, and ways in which our concepts of time are shaped by our socio-cultural backgrounds or intellectual heritage? How do we think about time from Freud’s and Palazzoli’s ideas? In this paper I put forward some first thoughts and ask questions in the context of a non-clinical family interview, and some reflections about ‘losing time’ in a clinical story. I link these thoughts to some philosophical and anthropological perspectives, and just touch on possible implications for our understanding of time in the light of relativity theory.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 04+05
  • Page Range: 7-39
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: English