title: The patient's relation to time during the final minutes of a psychotherapy session.
abstract: People must relate to time and the manner in which they relate to time is often a reflection of their object relationships and level of development. A patient's relationship to time throughout a therapy session can be a particular perspective from which object relationships and transference issues can be viewed. The patient's relationship to time during the final minutes of psychotherapy sessions provides a particularly revealing opportunity for observing a patient's desires, affect, and level of functioning. Clinical examples of patients' behaviors during the final minutes of psychotherapy sessions have demonstrated a variety of levels of object relationships. A number of affects have been described in these examples.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D013995:Time; D013998:Time Perception