ABSTRACT
Mental imagery, like emotion, plays an important role in chairwork for several reasons. First, mental images are believed to stimulate affect-related centres of the brain during chairwork. Second, individuals interact with representations of the self and others as real percepts during chairwork, thereby deepening immersion and heightening affective arousal. Third, autobiographical chairwork techniques such as historical role-play draw upon distressing episodic memories and allow their encapsulated meanings to be updated.
