Time experience in melancholia: a comparison between findings based on phenomenology and experimental psychology.

The different modes of time experience are based partly on the subjective and partly on the objective concept of time. Consequently, the phenomenon of time is accessible to both phenomenological analysis and experimental psychology. Based on disturbances in time experience in melancholic patients, this report illustrates the type of connection that exists between (qualitative) changes in the phenomenologically deducible "erlebnisimmanente" ego time or "erlebnistranseunte" universal time and (quantitative) experimental time estimation findings.