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imagery
principles: receptive or programmed?
psychospiritual approaches

definition

imagery: principles: receptive or programmed?

receptive: Begins with a theme or problem and lets the patient's images dictate the course. Patient lets go into the images, sounds, sensory images, feelings, or motion. Understanding the meaning could be facilitated by questioning the figures (active imagination per C.G. Jung), having patient taking them over (role playing), leading patient to meaningful resolution s/he creates (guided imagery), or encouraging the patient to follow the sound, motion, or feeling (switching channels per Arnold Mindell).

programmed: Holds a positive picture in the mind in order to create the visualized situation (i.e. dilation of bronchial tubes in asthmatic), or what it symbolically represents (having freedom and expansion in life). It is therefore goal-oriented rather than process-oriented, and not in the patient's own metaphors. This reflects a large body of the current visualization literature, however it may compromise what the patient's dis-ease is elucidating.
(Wambach)

see:
bodymind psychobiology
body reveals: the spirit
character typology of Reich and Lowen
process paradigm
subjective inquiry approach
the shadow and physical symptoms
imagery: precautions: beyond individual visualizations
imagery: precautions: contraindications
imagery: precautions: roles, cautions and tactics
imagery: precautions: Simontons' approach
imagery: precautions: spindrift research
imagery techniques: basic steps
imagery techniques: guided imagery
imagery techniques: image-cancer
imagery techniques: inner guides
imagery techniques: programmed
imagery techniques: smoking
imagery techniques: symptom access


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