The Time Cure: Taking Our Leave
Posted October 17, 2024 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch
For nearly 20 years it’s been my honor and privilege to be a colleague, writing partner, and most importantly, a friend of Phil Zimbardo. Back in the beginning of our fellowship, along with my husband, Richard Sword, we co-developed time perspective therapy (TPT), which is based on Phil’s groundbreaking time perspective theory. TPT was initially developed to help our clients suffering from post-traumatic stress (PTS), many of them veterans of war.
Post-traumatic stress consists of three things: a traumatic event that leaves you feeling depressed and anxious for an extended length of time. Because TPT helps with the combination symptoms of PTS it also works for people experiencing any one of the symptoms. The fruits of our labor were published in our book The Time Cure: Overcoming PTSD with the New Psychology of Time Perspective Therapy (2012).
