Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience: Time, Space, Number and State of Mind

Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy--time, space and number--summarizing theory, setting it in context and bringing concepts to life with clinical illustrations. Michael Stadter and David Scharff bring together contributions describing how each of these elements, as well as their simple and direct manifestations in the physical world, also combine to form the psychological dimensions of symbolic reality both in the inner world and in the transactional world. They also reveal how, in encounters between patient and therapist, the combination of inner worlds form a new, uniquely psychological, fourth dimension that saturates the activity and experience of the other three elements. This book aims to increase understanding of the action of the three dimensions of psychotherapy by looking at the elements that constitute the setting and process in which clinicians engage everyday. The psychoanalysts, connect their thinking on the dimensions toclinical practice by illustrating their ideas with case material and examining their impact on general treatment issues. This clear and readable investigation into the impact of the dimensions of time, space, number and state of mind will be of interest to practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.