ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes some of the tantalising, puzzling and fascinating qualities of the photograph. It illustrates how photographs may be a valuable adjunct to many therapeutic processes and can thus be used to powerful effect. The book explores the power of the image and also the fact that the capacity to use the image. It shows how they can be a stimulus to memory and emotion; charade-like glimpses of reality, crystallised for posterity. Enigmatic, sometimes enticingly cryptic, photographs inspires to poetry and prose, to artistic and academic study, philosophical debate and psychological enquiry. At the very end of the process of psychotherapy, the intention is that the patient will have internalised a good enough image of the therapist to enable him or her to move forward through life with strength and hope.
