ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of Alice M, was a young woman of twenty-five years old, good-looking though somewhat untidy in appearance; she gave the impression that she was confused in space and in time. Alice was able to give a picture of her normal and abnormal way of thinking and of her own painful reality. Alice suddenly began to tremble when she heard “real” noises coming from the radio in a neighbouring apartment. In sub-acute and chronic conditions, the attempt to escape from their own mental space involves the search for another space, another place and another time in which to live. If individuals are to be themselves, to experience their own personal mental space and to exist in time, they will have to accept the space and time that life has bestowed on them and to recognise that their body belongs to them as part of being a person-as-such.
