S Nassir Ghaemi

Feeling and time: the phenomenology of mood disorders, depressive realism, and existential psychotherapy.

Schizophrenia Bulletin November 22, 2006 S Nassir Ghaemi

Phenomenological research suggests that pure manic and depressive states are less common than mixtures of the two and that the two poles of mood are characterized by opposite ways of experiencing time. In mania, the subjective experience of time is sped up and in depression it is slowed down, perhaps reflecting differences in circadian pathophysiology. The two classic mood states are also quite...