Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Singer, Jerome L[Herausgeber]
• Pope, Kenneth S[Herausgeber]

Titel

The Power of Human Imagination : New Methods in Psychotherapy

Ist Teil von

• Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1978

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I • Introduction and Overview -- 1 The Use of Imagery and Fantasy Techniques in Psychotherapy -- II • Psychoanalytically Oriented Uses of Imagery -- 2 Controls of Visual Imagery and Therapist Intervention -- 3 Emergent Uncovering Psychotherapy: The Use of Imagoic and Linguistic Vehicles in Objectifying Psychodynamic Processes -- 4 Clinical Use of Categories of Therapeutic Imagery -- III • Mental Imagery Therapies -- 5 Basic Principles and Therapeutic Efficacy of Guided Affective Imagery (GAI) -- 6 Active Imagining -- 7 Eidetic Psychotherapy -- IV • Behavior-Therapy Uses of Imagery -- 8 Covert Conditioning: A Learning-Theory Perspective on Imagery -- 9 Covert Modeling: The Therapeutic Application of Imagined Rehearsal -- V • Broader Applications of Imagery -- 10 Imagery and the Control of Depression -- 11 Just Imagine How I Feel: How to Improve Empathy Through Training in Imagination -- 12 The Body, Expressive Movement, and Physical Contact in Psychotherapy -- VI • Conclu
• For at least half of the twentieth century, psychology and the other mental health professions all but ignored the significant adaptive possibilities of the human gift of imagery. Our capacity seemingly to duplicate sights, sounds, and other sensory experiences through some form of central brain process continues to remain a mysterious, alma st miraculous skill. Because imagery is so much a private experience, experimental psychologists found it hard to measure and turned their attentian to observable behaviors that could easily be studied in animaIs as well as in humans. Psychoanalysts and others working with the emotionally disturbed continued to take imagery informatian seriously in the form of dream reports, transferenee fantasies, and as indications of hallucinations or delusions. On the whole, however, they emphasized the maladaptive aspects of the phenomena, the distortions and defensiveness or the "regressive" qualities of daydreams and sequences of images. The present volume grows out of a long series of investigations by the senior author that have suggested that daydreaming and the stream of consciousness are not simply manifestations in adult life of persisting phenomena of childhood. Rather, the data suggest that imagery sequences represent a major system of encoding and transforming information, a basic human capacity that is inevitably part of the brain's storage process and one that has enormous potential for adaptive utility. A companian volume, The Stream of Consciousness, edited by Kenneth S. Pope and Jerome L.