Time is of the Essence: the Importance of Anticipation in the Treatment of Schizophrenia

In the treatment of schizophrenia we can observe a certain inclination towards anticipatory theories and methods. Especially in the areas of prevention and early detection we see this developmenl taking shape. What is mostly lacking in this novel approach is the idea that anticipation is deeply nested in every living system, even a pathological one. The dynamics of the process change during the course of observation and make meaningful predictions more difficult. So it is of the utmost importance to analyze the field of emergence which is schizophrenia as a plain of divisions, schisms and faulty recombinations, embedded from the start. The time(observer) approach in the therapeutic setting from a subjective point of view offers a way to approach and understand the tension that exists in the developmental lines within schizophrenia (pathological, ordinal, original, transcendental). We demonstrate this problem using the technique of lichaamskaart in the therapeutic time perspective.