title: Use of mental imagery in psychotherapy: a critical review.
abstract: The paper presents arguments in favor of the use of mental imagery for therapeutic purposes. Several existing imagery approaches to psychotherapy are critically examined and suggestions for future inquiry are offered. The intimate relation between imagery and the affective-somatic processes is stressed.
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001348:Aversive Therapy; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003071:Cognition; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic; D004538:Eidetic Imagery; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007171:Implosive Therapy; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology