Cite as (APA style): Zareva, S. (2026). The Problem of the Lack of Time in Highly Effective Individuals: A Positive Psychotherapeutic Approach. The Global Psychotherapist, 6(1), 276-281
Abstract: The article examines the problem of chronic “lack of time” in highly effective people as a psychological and existential symptom reflecting an internal imbalance. Balance model’s four main spheres: Body/Health, Work/ Achievement, Relationship, and Meaning/Future/Values. Rather than offering strategies for time management, Nossrat Peseschkian’s Positive Psychotherapy posits that time reflects the internal state. Through five therapeutic cases, the author traces different forms of time conflict – guilt, joylessness, dedication, disappointment, and control – and demonstrates how Peseschkian’s five-stage model helps restore internal time. The therapeutic process reveals that when a person recognizes the meaning of the pause and attunes to their rhythm, time ceases to be an enemy and becomes a space for living.
Keywords: Positive Psychotherapy, Balance Model, time perception, inner rhythm, existential meaning