Introduction

This introduction presents an overall view of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters in this book. The book has three central themes book they are Time, narrative and the Other as they apply to and in mediation. Mediation is a way of healing, offering hope for a cure to damage and loss, anger and experiencing our social selves through our relationships and our understandings of the world. Carl Jung argues that the 'therapeutic method of complex psychology consists on one hand in making as fully conscious as possible the constellated unconscious contents, and on the other hand, in synthesizing them with the consciousness through the act of recognition'. From a theoretical perspective, time and narrative have been the concern of Paul Ricoeur uses Augustine and Aristotle to explore the ways in which narrative and time 'mutually reinforce one another'. The chapter conveys overall view of the book.