Department of Philosophy, Durham University Durham, UK.
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Front Psychol. 2014 Sep 17;5:1026. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01026. eCollection 2014.
One of the symptoms of trauma is said to be a "sense of foreshortened future." Without further qualification, it is not clear how to interpret this. In this paper, we offer a phenomenological account of what the experience consists of. To do so, we focus on the effects of torture. We describe how traumatic events, especially those that are deliberately inflicted by other people, can lead to a loss of "trust" or "confidence" in the world. This undermines the intelligibility of one's projects, cares, and commitments, in a way that amounts to a change in the structure of temporal experience. The paper concludes by briefly addressing the implications of this for how we respond to trauma, as well as offering some remarks on the relationship between trauma and psychosis.
创伤的一个症状据说就是“未来感缺失”。如果不进一步说明，这个表述就不清楚是什么意思。本文提供了对这种体验所包含内容的现象学解释。为此，我们聚焦于酷刑的影响。我们描述了创伤性事件，尤其是那些由他人故意施加的事件，如何导致对世界的“信任”或“信心”丧失。这破坏了一个人对其计划、关心和承诺的理解，相当于改变了时间体验的结构。本文最后简要探讨了这对我们如何应对创伤的影响，并就创伤和精神病之间的关系发表了一些看法。
