what would a person raised without an awareness of time look like? act like? in this instance, then, self-referential chronology would be a huge problem and my guess is that, on the whole, memory of any significant kind would be an issue.
clearer definitions are perhaps warranted... what do we construe an awareness of time as? in considering the above, i gravitated to the topic of feral children. can they describe accurate memories? or do they lack language skills to place the self in a chronological context, and to a further degree relate a stream of constant happenings to oneself in the sense that it may be integrated into long term memory (ltm)?
to that end, then, might there exist such a person with language functioning and without a conception of time? what anthropological/sociological data do we have? this is an intriguing read...
what does this offer us with regard to ew as art therapy?
there must be a clear emphasis on the part of the clinician, as it relates to the client's personal experience of time--their memory framework and flow. the ew must lay out a clear, concise, chronological timeline, with an emphasis on what the client experiences minute by minute--as well as event pre-cursors and long-term ramifications. perhaps, again, a good baseline would be to alter the event's timeline and ask the client to respond to those changes in isolation, outside of their given context. just a few ideas...
see also: dan everett's homepage.
see also: dan everett's homepage.
