Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy: Healing from the Past, Embracing the Present, Creating an Ideal Future

by Philip G. Zimbardo

In his 2012 book Time Cure , psychologist Philip Zimbardo introduced a groundbreaking therapeutic approach for PTSD sufferers, co-developed with Rosemary Sword. "Time Perspective Therapy" shifts mental focus from the past to the present, and from negative to positive events, helping anyone achieve a more balanced view of life. Featuring real-life stories, this book describes how TPT helps people living with depression, anxiety or stress to move beyond past negative experiences--from toxic relationships to bullying--toward a more positive future.

Genres: Psychology

216 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2017

About the author

Philip George Zimbardo was an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later criticized severely for both ethical and scientific reasons. He authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He was also the initiator and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.

Reviews

[Golnaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr. Zimbardo first introduced the concept of time perspective in his famous, thoroughly researched book "Time Paradox" (2008) showing how an individual's perspective about time shapes one's behaviour, personality, and decisions. Later on in 2012, Time Perspective Therapy (TPT), an evolution to CBT was introduced by him and his couple colleagues Rick and Rose Sword in their book "Overcoming PTSD with the New Psychology of Time Perspective Therapy", a hot topic back then due to the returning US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan war. They were then asked by Psychology Today to write a blog column and were overwhelmed by the responses of the readers that not only questioned PTSD but also other areas like relationships, rejection, anxiety, stress, depression, bullying, sex, parenting, and basically how to live a happier life.

This book is a pretty much a clinical approach and a wrap of TPT with real-life examples that were extracted from their readers' comments and stories. If you are curious to know how your time perspective and personal time zone shape your lifestyle and don't have "time" to read the former two lengthy books, I totally recommend it!

[Agata · Rating 4 out of 5]

Można mieć poczucie, że temat został opracowany dość pobieżnie, ale mi osobiście ta książka bardzo dużo dała - przede wszystkim ogromnego kopa do zmiany perspektywy postrzegania czasu, a przy okazji zachęciła do sięgnięcia po inne tytuły profesora, poświęcone tej tematyce.

[Jan Vokoun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kniha obsahuje mnoho praktických tipů a především příkladů, co se může v jednotlivých přístupech k životu člověku stát. Čtení této knížky bych označil za náročnější, vzhledem k tomu, že se jedná o odborná témata.