The Power of Human Imagination: New Methods In Psychotherapy

摘要: For at least half of the twentieth century, psychology and other mental health professions all but ignored significant adaptive pos sibilities human gift imagery. Our capacity seemingly to duplicate sights, sounds, sensory experiences through some form central brain process continues remain a mysterious, alma st miraculous skill. Because imagery is so much private experience, experimental psychologists found it hard measure turned their attentian observable behaviors that could easily be studied in ani maIs as well humans. Psychoanalysts others working with emotionally disturbed continued take informatian se riously dream reports, transferenee fantasies, indications hallucinations or delusions. On whole, however, they emphasized maladaptive aspects phenomena, dis tortions defensiveness "regressive" qualities daydreams sequences images. The present volume grows out long series investigations by senior author have suggested daydreaming stream consciousness are not simply manifestations adult life persist ing phenomena childhood. Rather, data suggest represent major system encoding transforming information, basic inevitably part brain's storage one has enormous potential for adap tive utility. A companian volume, Stream Consciousness, edited Kenneth S. Pope Jerome L."