Treatment Outcome in Relation to Visual Imagery, Suggestibility, Transference, and Creativity

Reyher, Joseph

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“…Prominent among possible sources of social anxiety (Schlenker & Leary, 1982), are heightened self-awareness and security operations. Biasing instructions (Bowers, 1967;Bowers & Gilmore, 1969), transference (LeBaron, 1976LeBaron, Reyher, & Stack, in press;Reyher, 1977bReyher, , 1980Reyher, Wilson, & Hughes, 1979;Sheehan, 1972) also may be involved. This class of interpersonal variables presents the laboratory investigator with the problem of differentiating between spontaneously forming mentation and self-protective mechanisms (impression management).…”

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Spontaneous and directed visual imagery: Image failure and image substitution.

Moses¹,

Reyher²

1985

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Both spontaneous and instructed imagery-based therapies have in common two types of image disparity, image failure, and image substitution. The alleged objectifying properties of emergent uncovering psychotherapy suggested that Freud's conception of repression and derivative formation applies to image disparity in each type of therapy. Subjects were asked to visualize the scenes of three stimulus narratives (two aggressive and one affectively neutral but implausible) and to signal successful visualization or type of disparity. Both types of image disparity varied directly with blatancy of scenes depicting anger and aggression. Image failure was more closely associated with implausibility, but image substitution was more closely associated with anger-aggression. The former appears to index interpersonal variables, whereas the latter was consistent with repression and derivative formation. Almost all the subjects signaled image disparity, and many of the image substitutes could be classified into five of Freud's mechanisms of defense.

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Spontaneous and directed visual imagery: Image failure and image substitution.

Moses¹,

Reyher²

1985

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Getting the picture: The use of imagery to clarify therapeutic impasses.

Klagsbrun¹,

Brown²

1984

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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The Treatment of Creative Blocks: A Comparison of Waking Imagery, Hypnotic Dream, and Rational Discussion Techniques

Barrios

Singer

1981

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Forty-eight volunteers reporting creative blocks in relation to artistic, literary, scientific, or professional projects, were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (1) Waking Imagery, (2) Hypnotic Dream, (3) Rational Discussion, or (4) Control. In the Waking Imagery condition, participants engaged in ten directed imagination exercises, and subsequently generated three waking fantasies related to their creative projects. In the Hypnotic Dream condition, participants were exposed to a hypnotic induction procedure, and subsequently produced three hypnotic dreams related to their creative projects. The Rational Discussion condition involved a highly focused and logical collaborative examination of participants' creative projects, in which distractions and task-irrelevant thoughts were avoided. The Control condition simply involved encouraging participants, in a nondirective fashion, to discuss their projects. Follow-up a week after conclusion of treatment involved a rating by participants of Satisfaction and an account of changes, if any, in the creative block. Results suggest that the Waking Imagery and Hypnotic Dream conditions were most effective in promoting resolution of creative blocks. An examination of a number of possible predispositional features reveals that, overall, individuals with good attentional control and with low pretreatment levels of dysphoric daydreaming (e.g., guilty or hostile fantasies) were most likely to demonstrate a positive change in the status of their block. Intercorrelations between predispositional measures such as daydreaming styles, Public and Private Self-Consciousness, Absorption, and Hypnotic Susceptibility were also considered.

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Treatment Outcome in Relation to Visual Imagery, Suggestibility, Transference, and Creativity

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Spontaneous and directed visual imagery: Image failure and image substitution.

Spontaneous and directed visual imagery: Image failure and image substitution.

Getting the picture: The use of imagery to clarify therapeutic impasses.

The Treatment of Creative Blocks: A Comparison of Waking Imagery, Hypnotic Dream, and Rational Discussion Techniques

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