The clinical psychology in the search of the meaning of spatial and temporal transformations: synthesis of research paradigms

Abstract

The article reviewed many clinical and psychological issues associated with the study of mental representation of space and time. There are discussed the characteristics of the concepts of space and time in the mythological consciousness, as well as the specific aspects of these categories, which are the subject of research in various fields of clinical psychology. The author analyzes the possible role of spatial and temporal factors in the interpretation of the mechanisms of formation and development of some of the symptoms of mental disorders. He outlines the prospects for further studies of space and time in clinical psychology and pays special attention to complex and ambiguous process of integration for traditional methodological approaches of clinical psychology to the study of space and time and so-called aesthetic paradigm.