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Eternity in an hour: experiences of time related to psychotherapy sessions
Author(s) -
Yariv Gail
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1465-5922.00066
Subject(s) - feeling , unconscious mind , narrative , psychology , relation (database) , session (web analytics) , temporality , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , eternity , cognitive psychology , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , database , world wide web , computer science , linguistics
In this paper I consider the individual nature of the way a person develops senses of time. I suggest that something of a patient's early, unvoiced, experience is revealed through the temporal rhythms of interaction with the therapist. I refer to development, cycles of experience, metabolism, transgenerational emotions, experiences of beginnings and endings, early interactions with (m)other, together with narrative and its relation to unconscious processes. Experiences of time within the session indicate the nature of the feelings that are being lived, or refused life. I consider the paradox of living in the present and its relation to chronology. Lastly I give an example of the difficulty of timing comments when there is no flow of feeling, which is, itself, a communication.