A Current Perspective of Imagery in Psychoanalysis

1 March 1986

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Imagination, Cognition and Personality

Vol. 5 (3) , 199-209
https://doi.org/10.2190/tr82-e27w-6y0w-ld3n

Abstract

Two schools of thought concerning the value of imagery in psychoanalysis are contrasted. Discussion centers on the kinds of object relations manifested in the images of different types of patients, the role of imagery in internalizing particular analyst functions, and the value of attending to transference and countertransference images in promoting the forward movement of psychoanalytic treatment.

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