Why those sentence used in here?correct?

There are some sentences where the expressions "at that time/at the time/at this time" are used. Could you explain me the difference between them and why they are used in this context? Also, I would welcome any other example.

1. Well, I did not try this method. All our patients in the hospitals at that time used to get chloral and paraldehyd by the bucket. At the time I thought the doctor´s method was sheer quackery. But like other men of that period, he was groping for some means of helping the patient.

2. The turning point in Jung´s development seems to have been his return from his trip to America in 1909. He felt convinced that he had caught sight of basic weakness in Freud´s approach. At this time also, Jung seems to have undergone a period of personal uncertainity.

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1) At that time = At the time: a period of time connected with particular events or experiences in people’s lives:
We use both of them when talking about (or narrating) finished past events:
- I didn't realise that he was deeply unhappy at that time.
- At that time children were regularly beaten for quite minor offences.
- At that time people had large families as an insurance against some children dying.
- I was living with my parents at that time.
- I felt wrong, although I didn't say so at the time.
- At the time, it was tactically the right thing to do.
- It seemed like a good idea at the time, and then it all went horribly wrong.
- It happened that I had my camera with me at the time.
- There was nabody in the building at the time.

2) At this time = at the present time = now
- I have to stay by the phone because someone has arranged to phone me at this time.

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