Counter-Time: Temporality of Thought and History in Clinical Practice and Literature - Paperback

by Marina Breccia (Author)

This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, how that experience may not be linear, and how we may experience 'counter-time' - a disruption or arrest of time's flow and a perpetual return to the time of trauma.

Author Biography

Marina Breccia is a psychiatrist and training psychoanalyst at the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and International Psychoanalytical Association. She is also an external Professor of Psychiatry at Pisa University and foreign consultant for Revue Belge de Psychanalyse. She has written several monographs and contributed to jointly authored volumes.