title: A hypnotically mediated guided imagery intervention for intrusive imagery: creating ground for figure.
abstract: Intrusive imagery can be seen as a cognitive dysfunction in the assimilation and accommodation of the psychological material represented by those images. From a gestalt psychological perspective, the intrusive image represents a figure without a ground that can provide meaning and context. Hypnotically mediated guided imagery interventions can be used to create a ground for the rogue image that metaphorically is an unassimilated figure; and thus allow for the creation of a new cognitive scheme. Four case examples are presented as well as a model for the intervention.
authors.affiliation: National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Appel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D019018:Imagery, Psychotherapy; D008875:Middle Aged