THE IDEA OF A PRESENT MOMENT is put forward to deal with the problem of "now."
An edition of The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
(2004)
The present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life
1st ed.
by Daniel N. Stern
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"While most psychotherapies agree that therapeutic work in the 'here and now' has the greatest power to bring about change, few if any books have ever addressed the problem of what 'here and now' actually means. Beginning with the claim that we are psychologically alive only in the now, internationally acclaimed child psychiatrist Daniel N. Stern tackles vexing yet fascinating questions such as: what is the nature of 'nowness'? How is 'now' experienced between two people? What do present moments have to do with therapeutic growth and change? Certain moments of shared immediate experience, such as a knowing glance across a dinner table, are paradigmatic of what Stern shows to be the core of human experience, the 3 to 5 seconds he identifies as 'the present moment.' By placing the present moment at the center of psychotherapy, Stern alters our ideas about how therapeutic change occurs, and about what is significant in therapy"--
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Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
2010, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
January 15, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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The present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life
2004, W.W. Norton
in English
- 1st ed.
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The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
January 15, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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