By Valerie Thomas
ISBN-10: 041572886X
ISBN-13: 9780415728867
The healing power of operating with consumers' psychological photographs is commonly said, but there's nonetheless little within the counselling and psychotherapy literature on extra inclusive techniques to the scientific purposes of psychological imagery. Using psychological Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a special, obtainable consultant for counsellors and psychotherapists who desire to enhance their services during this vital healing perform.
Contemporary practitioners have at their disposal a wide repertoire of images equipment and strategies comprising the contributions from diversified healing faculties and medical innovators. Valerie Thomas identifies a number of the universal gains in those methods and gives a transtheoretical framework that helps integrative practitioners in knowing and utilizing psychological imagery to reinforce healing approaches. The booklet:
- Examines the advance of the speculation and perform of psychological imagery inside a much broader context of the heritage of mind's eye as a therapeutic modality;
- Describes the several ways in which psychological imagery has been integrated into healing perform and evaluates fresh advancements;
- Reviews factors of the healing efficacy of psychological imagery and considers how contemporary theoretical options supply a method of realizing the function that psychological photos play in processing experience;
- Includes reflections on how you can boost extra inclusive idea and proposes a version which could tell integrative perform.
Using quite a lot of scientific vignettes to demonstrate conception and state-of-the-art examine, Valerie Thomas proposes a brand new built-in version of perform. supplying transparent and certain suggestions on utilizing the version to medical perform, the booklet might be crucial examining for psychotherapists and counsellors, either in perform and coaching, who desire to harness the healing efficacy of psychological imagery.
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Even humanistic schools such as the person-centred approach with its inherent distrust of techniques have generated contributions to this repertoire; one example being Gendlin’s (1981) ‘focusing’ method where the therapist helps the client use mental images to first concretise and then gain more insight into vague undifferentiated bodily sensations. Despite the range of theory and practice across the humanistic schools, it is possible to make some general observations as to its use of mental imagery.
The premise of rescripting is that deliberate changes made to the negative mental images associated with the condition will result in equivalent changes to the emotional response. Furthermore, as much of the consequent post-trauma disturbance is associated with memory, modifying the traumatic memory is a powerful means of treatment. Rescripting draws on previously developed methods of imaginal exposure and covert modelling discussed earlier. First, the client is directed to recreate the memories of the original trauma.
And, similarly to Mesmer’s patients over a century previously, their patients were reporting successful cures. Furthermore, these experimental procedures often contained an imagery component, and it is striking how much these 19th-century accounts seem to hark back to premodern practices in Ancient Greece, discussed earlier, such as the incubation methods in the Asclepian healing temples. Importantly, and especially pertinent to the history of the therapeutic use of mental imagery, practitioners were beginning to identify that during hypnotic states their patients would produce mental images that seemed to be the products of a helpful unconscious source.