IMMEDIACY IN TIME ATTITUDES BEFORE AND AFTER TIME-LIMITED PSYCHOTHERAPY.

The article informs that maladjustment has been explained as "repetition compulsion" or as the imposition of past perceptions upon present experience. Repetition of the past involves not only inaccurate perceptual content, but more especially a structure-bound manner of experiencing. There is experiencing of structures and patterns instead of the richly detailed immediacy of present events. It follows that immediacy of experiencing is a mark of adjustment. Increased immediacy of experiencing has also been viewed as inherent in the process of therapy.