psychotherapy: guided imagery

This psychotherapy technique involves suggestion of imagined pictures related to problems that are a focus of treatment and sometimes use of associations to these images.

Also: systematic desensitization

• Academy for Guided Imagery

• Naparstek, Belleruth Staying Well With Guided Imagery Paperback 1995
• Rossman, Martin L. Healing Yourself- A Step-by-Step Program for Better Health Through Imagery  Paperback 1987
• Schwartz, Andrew E.Guided Imagery for Groups - Fifty Visualizations That Promote Relaxation, Problem-Solving, Creativity, and Well-Being Paperback 1995
• Thomas, P. Sebastian (Editor) Image-Guided Pain Management Hardcover 1997

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