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| | | Article Name : | | | Mental imagery in psychoanalysis, psychodynamic
and cognitive-behavioral approaches:
literature review | | Author Name : | | | DORINA BEDHIA
| | Publisher : | | | Bridge Center | | Article URL : |  | | | Abstract : | | | This article provides an overview of the use of images in the
psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, cognitive and cognitive-behavioral
approach based on existing literature. Imagination, as an intervention
technique has been shown to be effective and even superior to other
intervention techniques, in different life fields. The majority of
clinicians use imaginative techniques to promote relaxation, to reduce
stress, to regain control of unwanted behaviors, to increase selfawareness, to plan a lifestyle, to improve health. On the level of
therapeutic intervention it is essential to increase the motivation of the
subject to work with the images. Imaginative therapies are used by
many therapists. There are wide varieties of imaginative therapies that
have been thoroughly examined. These approaches can be classified
into a series of models based on their theoretical assumptions and preestablished objectives. Those who use images in the context of
psychoanalysis and in analytical psychotherapy have modified the
method of free association using imaginative instructions as a way to
improve discovery and revelation. Behaviorists have used images to
extinguish fear-based symptomatic behaviors through desensitization
and through the alteration of the cognitive representations that guide
these behaviors, as in the case of symbolic modeling by Bandura and
covert modeling by Cautela. | | Keywords : | | | cognitive-behavioral approach, imaginative therapies,
mental imagery, psychoanalytic-psychodynamic approach |
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