 American existential psychologist Rollo May hypothesized that "depression is the inability to construct a future".In general, May wrote, "depression ... occur[s] more in the dimension of time than in space," and the depressed individual fails to look ahead in time properly.Thus the "focusing upon some point in time "outside" the depression ... gives the patient a perspective, a view on high so to speak; and this may well break the chains of the ...