Key words: time, psychotherapy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, western culture
The issue of time in psychotherapy has usually been discussed in terms of sessions frequency, session duration, and therapy duration. In these cases, the public aspects of time as clocks and calendars measure it are considered. The present work will not take these public aspects into account, because its aim is to consider the experienced aspects of time as phenomenology described them. The fact that phenomenological psychiatry has already debated the experienced time in its regards to psychopathology is known. Here we will broad those considerations to the psychotherapy process, in order to offer some initial coordinates on how human being’s temporality may come into play in psychotherapy.