Psychological Time and Mental Illness by Dr. Matthew Edlund

The psychology of time is rarely considered in psychological psychiatric practice. The result of the neglect of this basic facet of human experience is that we may be ignoring significant information that can not only help us to understand how the brain works, but also be of benefit in therapy and clinical service. Time as an area of psychological research merits much greater attention. This intriguing book by Dr. Edlund is an effort to underscore that need and, in part, to remedy it.

The book, Psychological Time and Mental Illness, has three major purposes:

To review concisely what is known about the psychology of time, from physioIogy to the work of Freud and Piaget;
To describe the kinds of psychological time changes that occur with mental illness; and,
To point out how the study of biological rhythms may further both the understanding of the psychology of time and of mental health in general.

The author discusses how perception, cognition, and affect all influence our different senses of time. Finally he considers the future of research in the psychology of time, its many methodological pitfalls, and how intemal biological clocks may ultimately relate, not just to affective disease, but to our perceptions and personalities.

Difficult to study, hard to define, time is still a concept as extensive, multileveled, and exciting as any within the study of human behavior.

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