Therapists' use of their visual images in therapy
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Title
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Therapists' use of their visual images in therapy
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:9a065b18cb40:11304
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identifier
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11772
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Creator
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Fuchs, Dafna,
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Contributor
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Elliot Jurist
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Clinical psychology | Visual Images
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Abstract
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Therapists frequently experience a spontaneous appearance of a picture or sequence of pictures in their minds, while listening to their patients; in this research project I refer to these experiences as Therapists' Visual Images. The roles that these visual images play in the process of therapy may vary between different therapists, patients, and contexts. The goal of this study is to expand the theoretical understanding of this phenomenon that is common among therapists, but had not yet been studied using a controlled research. This study will examine the scope of the use of visual images that therapists experience during sessions and the processes that lead to these various uses of the image.;15 therapists were interviewed about their experience of having spontaneous visual images in sessions. They were asked about their thoughts and feelings about the experience as well as their use of their images in sessions. The data was coded and distributed to four domains representing the process of the appearance of the image: 1. Before the Image; 2. The Image; 3. After the image; and, 4. Therapists' Theories of the Functions of Visual Images.;In further analysis of the results, several processes of visual images were found, resulting in different types of images: Associative Images, Symbolic Images, and Defensive Images. These processes were found to be related to different uses of the image. These finding as well as the limitations of this study are discussed.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
