Stern, D. N. (2004). The Present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life. New York: W. W. Norton, 283 pp., ISBN 0-393-70429-7, $29.95 (hardcover).

In the beginning of his book, The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life, Daniel N. Stern states that this "book is largely about certain [present] moments [that make up subjective experience and] that can change the course of psychotherapy as well as regular life" (p. 18). In his rigorous attempt to describe and understand these crucial and elemental present moments, Stern "relies heavily" on a phenomenological perspective. Consequently, Stern's text is like a breath of fresh air in the mainstream fields of ...