The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

Daniel N. Stern, M.D.

Contents

Part I. Exploring The Present Moment
Chapter 1. The Approach
Chapter 2. The Nature of the Present-Moment;
Chapter 3. The Temporal Architecture of the Present-Moment
Chapter 4. The Organization of the Present-Moment: The Present-Moment as a Micro Emotional Narrative

Part II. Contextualizing the Present-Moment for Clinical Consideration
Chapter 5. The Intersubjective Matrix
Chapter 6. Raising Intersubjectivity to the Level of an Independent Motivational System
Chapter 7. Implicit Knowing
Chapter 8. The Role of Consciousness and the notion of ‘Intersubjective Consciousness’

Part III. Views From A Clinical Perspective
Chapter 9. The Clinical Situation, I: ‘Moving Along’, ‘Now Moments’ and ‘Moments of Meeting’
Chapter 10. The Clinical Situation, II: The Creative Virtues of Sloppiness in the Therapeutic Process
Chapter 11. The Clinical Situation, III. : Interweaving the Implicit and the Explicit
Chapter 12. The Clinical Situation, IV. : The Role of the Past upon the Present-Moment
Chapter 13. The Clinical Situation, V. : The Centrality of the Moment of Meeting

Part IV. Implications for Clinical Psychologies and the Neurosciences
Chapter 14. Implications for the Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy
Chapter 15. Implications and Questions for the Neurosciences

EPILOGUE, Including: a Description of the Micro-Analytic Interview and some preliminary results; and a Brief Summary of the Paths Taken in Writing this Book

ISBN: 0-393-70429-7
Winter 2004
Cloth, 320 pages