Imagery, Psychotherapy
The use of mental images produced by the imagination as a form of psychotherapy. It can be classified by the modality of its content: visual, verbal, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthetic. Common themes derive from nature imagery (e.g., forests and mountains), water imagery (e.g., brooks and oceans), travel imagery, etc. Imagery is used in the treatment of mental disorders and in helping patients cope with other diseases. Imagery often forms a part of HYPNOSIS, of AUTOGENIC TRAINING, of RELAXATION TECHNIQUES, and of BEHAVIOR THERAPY. (From Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, vol. 4, pp29-30, 1994)
Year introduced: 2020 (1996)
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Tree Number(s): E02.190.525.249, F04.754.462
MeSH Unique ID: D019018
Entry Terms:
- Imagery, Psychotherapeutic
- Imagery Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy, Imagery
- Psychotherapy Imagery
- Guided Imagery
- Imagery, Guided
- Psychotherapeutic Imagery
- Imagery (Psychotherapy)
- Directed Reverie Therapy
- Directed Reverie Therapies
- Reverie Therapies, Directed
- Reverie Therapy, Directed
- Therapies, Directed Reverie
- Therapy, Directed Reverie
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