title: Free visual imagery sequences in reactors and nonreactors.
abstract: The technique of Free Visual Imagery Sequences was used with 32 outpatients, M age of 33.9, to determine the differences between Visual Imagery Reactors and Nonreactors as defined in previous studies. Reactors showed significantly more responses associated with Affect/Conflict material, frequently including bizarre and distorted images. The Affect/Conflict responses occurred earlier and had longer duration spans in Reactors. Neutral content was more prevalent in Nonreactors. An interpretive approach involving a regulatory processing system is proposed. Free Visual Imagery Sequences appears to be a simple and efficient clinical technique which can contribute data useful in determining the extent to which imagery techniques could be employed in certain forms of psychotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yanovski
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Fogel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001143:Arousal; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014796:Visual Perception