title: [Flight from reality or resilience factor? The significance of the ability of imagination in the psychotherapy with children and adolescents].
abstract: The power of imagination refers to the ability of obtaining mental access to an inner world of vision and potential in which change can be believed to be possible. The ability to create inner pictures is dependent on a capacity for symbolisation which is often impaired in deprived or traumatised children and adolescents or those with attachment disorders. Psychotherapy should help foster the ability to create inner pictures, while at the same time remembering that the work of integrating wishes and visions into the real life structure of patients presents a special therapeutic challenge.
authors.affiliation: Hochschule Neubrandenburg, Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit. braeutigam@hs-nb.de
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bräutigam
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission; D010989:Play Therapy; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011577:Psychodrama; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D019962:Reactive Attachment Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011936:Reality Testing; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D013561:Symbolism