For at least half of the twentieth century, psychology and the other mental health professions all but ignored the significant adaptive pos­ sibilities 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 ani­ maIs as well as in humans. Psychoanalysts and others working with the emotionally disturbed continued to take imagery informatian se­ riously 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 dis­ tortions 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 persist­ ing 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 adap­ tive utility. A companian volume, The Stream of Consciousness, edited by Kenneth S. Pope and Jerome L.
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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 adap­ tive utility.
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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 • Conclusion.- 13 Why Does Using Imagery in Psychotherapy Lead to Change?.- Author Index.
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ISBN
9781461339434
Publisert
2011-11-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
426