Time in Practice

<p><i>Time in Practice: Temporality Intersubjectivity and Listening Differently</i> is an original exploration of diverse ways in which individuals ‘live’ time consciously and unconsciously. Challenging the psychoanalytic emphasis on the past as determinative Mary Lynne Ellis explores the significance of present and future dimensions of individuals’ experiences which catalyses change in the analytical relationship.</p><p>Through critical analyses of the theorizing of Freud Jung Klein Winnicott and Lacan Ellis highlights the limitations of spatial metaphors binaries of ‘inner’/‘outer’ in addressing the socio-political and historical specificity of patients’ experiences including questions of identity and discrimination. She explores how intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives allow for the development of new interpretations of temporality/intersubjectivity/language/embodiment in analytical practices. Ellis reflects on the dynamism of conceptualizations emergent in autobiography fiction phenomenological and postmodern philosophy gender post-colonial queer and cultural studies for contemporary relational psychoanalytic practices. This revised and updated edition includes discussion of experiences of loss vulnerability mortality inequalities and powerlessness associated with the profound impact of the spread of the coronavirus climate change and the Ukraine war. It also includes a new chapter on mourning time and identities.</p><p>The book will be of interest to psychotherapists art therapists counsellors psychologists and those working in the fields of gender sexuality class race and post-colonial studies literature and allied disciplines.</p>