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Imagery

20 techniques · 8 approaches
AEDP
Portrayals / Experiential Processing
Portrayals / Experiential Processing
Inviting the client to imagine a significant other (a parent, a partner) and address them directly, expressing blocked feelings — in the pre…
CBT
Systematic Desensitization
Systematic Desensitization
A gentler exposure method combining relaxation with gradual imagined contact with feared situations. The client first learns relaxation, the…
Coherence
Imaginal Symptom Deprivation
Imaginal Symptom Deprivation
The client imagines that the symptom has completely vanished and explores the feelings that arise — in order to discover the hidden emotiona…
Coherence
Root Memory Access
Root Memory Access
Finding the concrete experience in which the emotional knowledge behind the symptom was formed — through the affect bridge or direct inquiry…
ISTDP
Portrayal / Projective Portrayal
Portrayal / Projective Portrayal
A guided imaginal process in which the client lets an impulse or feeling become fully represented without acting it out in reality.
Jung
Active Imagination
Active Imagination
A technique of conscious and deliberate interaction with images of the unconscious in a waking state. Developed by Jung in 1913–1916 as a di…
Jung
Amplification
Amplification
A specifically Jungian method of interpretation — the expansion ("amplification") of an image from a dream or fantasy through parallels draw…
Jung
Dream Analysis / Jungian Dream Interpretation
Dream Analysis / Jungian Dream Interpretation
The dream is the main diagnostic and therapeutic instrument of Jungian analysis. Jung treated dreams as direct messages of the unconscious w…
Jung
Fairy Tale Analysis / Amplification Through Fairy Tales
Fairy Tale Analysis / Amplification Through Fairy Tales
M.-L. von Franz developed a method of interpreting fairy tales as "the purest expression of the collective unconscious". Fairy-tale characte…
Jung
Image Work / Archetypal Psychology (Hillman) / Soul-Making
Image Work / Archetypal Psychology (Hillman) / Soul-Making
James Hillman developed "archetypal psychology", radically focusing therapy on images as a reality in themselves. His principle: the image d…
PST
Healthy Thinking and Positive Imagery Toolkit
Healthy Thinking and Positive Imagery Toolkit
A Problem-Solving Therapy technique focused on healthy thinking and positive imagery toolkit. It helps the therapist and client turn an emot…
REBT
Rational Emotive Imagery (REI)
Rational Emotive Imagery (REI)
An emotive technique developed by Maxie Maultsby and adapted by Ellis. The client vividly imagines the distressing situation, lets themselve…
Sandplay
Dream-Sandplay Connection
Dream-Sandplay Connection
Exploring the link between the client's dreams and their sand pictures. Dreams and Sandplay are two channels to the unconscious, which often…
Sandplay
Free Scene Creation
Free Scene Creation
The client creates any world in the sandbox without instructions. Full freedom of figure choice and composition. The therapist observes in s…
Sandplay
Post-Creation Dialogue
Post-Creation Dialogue
Gentle inquiry into the created world through open questions. Not interpretation, but an invitation for the client to speak about what they …
Sandplay
Safe Space Building
Safe Space Building
The client creates a safe place in the sandbox — a resource image they can return to. Especially valuable in trauma and anxiety work.
Sandplay
Sandplay with Children
Sandplay with Children
Adaptation of Sandplay for children: fewer words, more play, the child's native language. The therapist is the safe adult who "sees" the chi…
Sandplay
Series Review
Series Review
A joint viewing of the photographs of all sand pictures in chronological order. The client sees the whole inner path — from the first pictur…
Sandplay
Symbol Amplification
Symbol Amplification
A Jungian technique for expanding a symbol: exploring its meanings through mythology, fairy tales, culture, personal associations. Not inter…
Sandplay
Water Element Work
Water Element Work
Adding water to the sandbox: creating rivers, lakes, seas. Water is a symbol of emotion, of the unconscious, of the maternal. Working with w…
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