The Temporal Dimension in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Journey in Time

ISBN-13: 9780367819651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 236 str.

Sue Wright

Opis

The book looks at time as an intangible phenomenon that is culturally created, historically framed but individually understood, by integrating historical, cultural and psychotherapeutic perspectives to examine one's experience of time from current identity to past trauma, both in the consulting room and beyond.

Spis treści

Part I: Our individual and cultural relationship to time;  1: The lure of time;  2: Being a "self-in-time";  3: Lived time, remembered time and the brain;  4: Our quest for meaning and the age of meaninglessness;  Part II: The therapeutic journey and its temporal shape;  5: Time in the consulting room;  6: Time-related themes and issues: Life-stage transitions;  7: Facing the late life transition and the first challenge of living in time;  8: Telling stories and interlocking time-zones;  Part III: Ruptured time;  9: When the past haunts the present: The impact of trauma on our relationship to time;  10: Sharing the untold story: Always? Sometimes? Never?;  11: The impact of loss and life crises on our relationship to time;  12: Journeying in time: Psychotherapy and the change process;  Epilogue: Towards an appreciation of time

O autorze

Sue Wright is an Integrative Psychotherapist working in private practice in the UK as a therapist, supervisor, trainer and writer with a specialization in working with the survivors of complex trauma.