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.

InhaltsangabeI - Introduction and Overview.- 1 The Use of Imagery and Fantasy Techniques in Psychotherapy.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Stunted Growth of Psychology and Psychotherapy: A Bias toward Verbal and Directed Thought.- 3. Therapy and Imagination.- 4. Dimensions of Cognition and Expression.- 5. Psychoanalysis and Related Psychodynamic Approaches.- 6. More Direct Forms of Clinical Intervention.- 7. Self-Efficacy and Imagery.- 8. Some Preventive and Constructive Uses of Our Imagery Capacities.- 8.1. Imagery and Adaptive Escapism.- 8.2. Imagery Uses for Self-Awareness.- 8.3. Imagery for Self-Regulation and Biofeedback.- 8.4. Imagery for Creativity and Aesthetic Experience.- References.- II - Psychoanalytically Oriented Uses of Imagery.- 2 Controls of Visual Imagery and Therapist Intervention.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Image Formation as a Mode of Representation.- 3. Utility of the Visual Image System.- 4. A Model of the Image System.- 5. Defenses and the Process of Working-Through.- 6. Techniques to Alter Inhibitory Operations.- 7. Facilitations and Inhibitory Failures.- 8. More Complex Defensive Operations.- 9. Summary.- References.- 3 Emergent Uncovering Psychotherapy: The Use of Imagoic and Linguistic Vehicles in Objectifying Psychodynamic Processes.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Procedures for Objectifying and Differentiating Awareness and Interpersonal Behavior.- 2.1. Self-Disclosure.- 2.2. Entrée Points: The Exploration of Self-Awareness.- 2.3. Eyes Closed Free Association.- 2.4. The Verbalization of Suppressed and Dissociated Material: A Clinical Illustration.- 2.5. Relevant Laboratory Investigations.- 3. Objectifying Repression and Repressed Drive-Related Impulses.- 4. Modes of Information Processing.- 5. Relevant Clinical Illustrations.- 6. Laboratory Investigations of Drive Intensification.- 7. A Conceptual Integration.- 7.1. Intrapsychic Drives.- 7.2. Dissociation.- 7.3. Security Operations and Defenses against Impulses.- 7.4. Endopsychic Drives.- 7.5. Free Imagery: The Mechanisms of Image Retrieval.- 7.6. Uncovering: Pathogenesis and Therapeutics.- 8. Conclusions and Wider Implications.- 8.1. Domains of Phenomena.- 8.2. Can Spontaneous Visual Imagery Be Symbolic?.- 8.3. Creativity.- 8.4. Implications for Freudian and Sullivanian Theory.- References.- 4 Clinical Use of Categories of Therapeutic Imagery.- 1. Introduction: The Function of Imagery.- 2. The Technique of Psycho-Imagination Therapy.- 3. Spontaneous Imagery.- 4. Directed Imagery.- 5. Self-Image Imagery.- 6. Dual Imagery.- 7. Body Imagery.- 8. Sexual Imagery.- 9. Predicting Imagery.- 10. Task Imagery.- 11. Cathartic Imagery.- 12. Depth Imagery.- 13. General Imagery.- 14. Detection of Resistance in Imagery Production.- 15. Group Therapy Imagery.- 16. Current Research.- References.- III - Mental Imagery Therapies.- 5 Basic Principles and Therapeutic Efficacy of Guided Affective Imagery (GAI).- 1. Introduction.- 2. Theoretical Foundations.- 3. Mobile Projection.- 3.1. Diagnostic Aspect.- 3.2. Spontaneous Projection.- 3.3. Synchronic Transformation.- 4. Bringing Core Conflicts into Focus.- 5. Standard Themes.- 5.1. Standard Motifs of GAI.- 6. Therapeutic Techniques.- 6.1. Specific Techniques and Strategies.- 7. Management Models in Symbolic Drama (Symbolic Operation).- 7.1. Two Examples.- 7.2. Theoretical Excursus.- 7.3. Elementary Level.- 7.4. Intermediate Level.- 7.5. Advanced Level.- 8. Investigative Findings.- 8.1. Literature.- 8.2. Statistical Studies.- 8.3. Case Histories.- 8.4. Didactic Possibilities.- 9. Some Theoretical Reflections on GAI.- 9.1. The General Psychodynamic Concept.- 9.2. What Is Therapeutically Effective in GAI?.- 9.3. The Nature of Transference Relationships in GAI.- 9.4. Symbolic Concepts.- 10. Indications.- 11. Summary.- References.- 6 Active Imagining.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Dream Action and Dream Meanings.- 3. Human Competence.- 4. Realism in Dreamwork.- 5. Modalities of Experience.- 6. The Structure of Healing.- 7. Archetype and Image.- 8. Images and the