Abstract
Temporality and Spatiality have been extensively addressed in philosophy, and their disturbances have been extensively
studied in psychopathology (e.g. Wyllie 2005). Mental health patients: (1) describe pathological experiences of Time
and Space (Gallagher and Varela 2003); (2) show disturbed timing (Tysk 1984); (3) experience psychopathological
phenomena that could be the cause of changes in temporality and spatiality. These topics will be discussed in the case of
mood disorders, in particular euphoric and dysphoric mania episodes. Any phenomenological study in mood disorders
is delicate as affective disorders are in themselves phenomenologically diverse, because they have obscure meaning,
multitude of criteria and inconsistent reference norms. Also, psychoanalytical, colloquial and cognitive psychologies
keep instilling comprehensive and epistemological structures onto both mood and time/space notions. Nevertheless,
bridging philosophical phenomenology and epistemology on time and temporality with mood psychopathology and
taxonomy constitutes an on-going project. Theories by Heidegger, Husserl and Merleau-Ponty as well as by Minkowsky,
Binswanger, Fuchs, Parnas, and Sass could help to describe this relation deepened into many other Twentieth-Century
philosophical papers. A similar account of space and spatiality will be brought about. We will reason about the concept
that they provide evidence to address current conceptualization of “bipolar” disorder and the hierarchical grouping of
dysphoric and euphoria mania.