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The Power of Human Imagination - New Methods in Psychotherapy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
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The Power of Human Imagination - New Methods in Psychotherapy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
Series: Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy
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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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