Concept

Now Moment

Stern calls them ’Now Moments’: sudden moments of heightened affective tension that shake the familiar relational context and demand an authentic, unpredictable response from both parties

Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 2.3 — 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

Related concepts

Moment of MeetingImplicit relational knowledge

Occurrences in the text

1. Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

   … t is within this implicit field that the decisive turning points occur. Stern calls them ’Now Moments’: sudden moments of heightened affective tension that shake the familiar relational conte …

2. Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now

   … here this experimentation succeeds, a ‘moment of meeting’ can occur (cf. Chapter 2.3): a ‘now moment’ is not routinely glossed over, but is authentically embraced. It cannot be planned or br …

3. Ch. 4.2 4.2 The missing contact boundary: simulation instead of encounter

   … it does not establish contact. Therapeutic change occurs, as outlined in Chapter 3.3, in ‘Now Moments’ – unplannable turning points in which, through a gesture, an unexpected reaction or a mi …