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This book was conceived as a tool for very different readers – from curious newcomers to practicing psychotherapists and researchers. Over the course of its development, it expanded: to the theoretical part and the individual practice a third part was added – on collective temporal psychotherapy. Below are several guidelines to help you build your own reading path.

If you want a general overview

Read sequentially: Introduction → Part I (theory and worldview) → transitional chapters → Part II (individual temporal psychotherapy) → Part III (collective temporal psychotherapy).

In this way, you will see the unfolding line of the main idea: from understanding the human being in time → to methods of working with personal temporal experience → to work with groups, communities, and culture.

If you are looking for practical techniques

You may go directly to the practical sections.

Part II contains protocols of individual work: chapters with methods, exercises, clinical examples, and appendices with worksheets and diagnostic/self-observation forms.

Part III focuses on collective temporal psychotherapy: group formats, family and organizational work, «collective cases,» session scenarios, and elements of temporal prevention.

The glossary and appendices help you quickly navigate the terminology and choose suitable methods.

If you are a researcher or educator

The main theoretical foundations are presented in Sections 1—4 of Part I: the model of temporal psyche, connections with the philosophy of time, cognitive science, phenomenology, neuroscience, and ASC practice.

Part III complements this with material on collective and cultural temporality – useful for social psychology, community therapy, organizational consulting, and cultural studies.

Short summaries at the end of each section are useful for preparing lectures, courses, and scientific reviews.

If you read for personal development

Alternate theory and practice. Begin with the introductory chapters of Part I to understand the author’s view of time, personality, and destiny.

Then move to the basic individual exercises (Practical Part), and gradually to the ideas of collective temporality.

It is important not only to do the practices but also to keep a diary of observations: record changes in your sense of past, present, future, and relation to eternity.

If you work with groups, families, or organizations

Rely on the theoretical chapters of Part I and the key chapters of individual practice in Part II – this is the «grammar» of temporal psyche.

Then proceed to Part III, where principles and formats of collective temporal psychotherapy are described: group memory, shared images of the future, experiences of atemporality at the level of an organization or community.

For group facilitators, the sections on competence boundaries, ethics, and safety in ASC work and highly charged collective topics are especially important.

How to work with exercises and cases

Before doing an exercise, read carefully its aims, indications, and limitations.

Always begin with the recommended preparatory steps (attunement, breathing, grounding in the present).

For individual techniques, record your sensations, images, thoughts, and temporal changes.

For collective formats, also note group dynamics, emotional climate, and changes in the «time» of the group (as it feels before, during, and after the session). These records are part of the method.

Glossary, appendices, and bibliography

The glossary contains concise definitions of key concepts of temporal psychology and psychotherapy, including terms related to atemporality, eternity, and collective temporality.

The appendices include expanded case examples, questionnaires, diagrams, and worksheets for individual and group work.

The bibliography and «Literature and Commentary» sections offer reading paths and show how the book’s ideas connect with existing scientific and therapeutic traditions.

Reading support and navigation

Pay attention to special markers and highlights in the text that help distinguish levels of material: where theory is given, where practice is described, where an individual clinical case or a collective/cultural example is presented.

Highlighted blocks with key ideas serve as reference points for repetition and planning.

Balancing spiritual and scientific language

The book combines methodological precision with metaphorical, sometimes poetic descriptions of time experience.

If you prefer a strict academic style, focus on chapters with methodology, empirical data, and protocols.

If existential meaning and the spiritual dimension are important, look closely at the chapters on eternity, atemporality, destiny, and collective archaic layers of time.

Reading this book is not a linear march through pages but a movement across several dimensions: from theory to practice, from personal experience of time to collective experience, from chronological everyday time to encounters with eternity and exit from atemporality.

Make pauses, return to important passages, try the techniques in a safe format – and temporal psychology will become not only a system of knowledge but also a living experience that changes your own trajectory in time.