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Say the words 'therapy session' and many people will picture an hour spent on a couch dredging up unhappy childhood memories. A different approach suggests that redirecting the focus onto the present and future can make people happier, healthier and lead to better relationships. 说起“心理治疗”这个词，很多人的脑海中会浮现出倚在长沙发上，花一小时来挖掘童年悲惨记忆的画面。而一种与之不同的治疗方法暗示，如果将关注的焦点转向现在和将来，会让人更快乐，更健康，建立更好的人际关系。 The method, called Time Perspective Therapy, involves figuring out which of six different outlooks a person has: past-positive (you love the past); past-negative (you have regrets and bad things happened in your past -- or things that you now exaggerate as bad); present hedonism (you enjoy the present and like to reward yourself); present fatalism (you feel that events are beyond your control, so why bother?); goal-oriented future (you plan ahead and weigh the costs and benefits of any decision); transcendental future (you live a good life because you believe the reward is a heaven after death). 这种方法被称为“时间观疗法”(Time Perspective Therapy)，其中一项内容是判断一个人拥有以下六种不同观念中的哪一些，这六种观念分别是：过去积极时间观（你喜爱自己的过去）；过去消极时间观 （你有遗憾或过去发生过不幸的事──或者你有现在被你夸大为不幸的事情）；现在享受时间观（你享受当下，喜欢犒赏自己）；现在宿命时间观（你感觉命运不受自己控制，那何必费心去控制呢？）；目标导向未来时间观（你会事先计划，做任何决定都会权衡利弊）；超验未来时间观（你过得很好，因为你相信奖赏是死后进天堂）。 | 
