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Clinical Use of Categories of Therapeutic Imagery

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The Power of Human Imagination

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Psycho-imagination therapy is a phenomenological and dialogical process with major emphasis on subjective meaning through the modality of waking imagery.

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Shorr, J.E. (1978). Clinical Use of Categories of Therapeutic Imagery. In: Singer, J.L., Pope, K.S. (eds) The Power of Human Imagination. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3941-0_4

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