ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the interrelationships between psychic and somatic processes with a particular theme in mind—this concerns the way in which visual imagery entered the free associative process of a very imaginative and articulate patient in movement psychotherapy. It illustrates the different ways in which imagery was mobilized by Francine, a woman in her mid-twenties. The chapter explores these different uses of imagery in terms of their signalling, in the first instance a splitting and discontinuity between mind and body, and in the second, a way of supporting a more embodied containment of thoughts and feelings. It considers whether and how the former has a resonance with two-dimensionality and the latter with three-dimensionality, considering both Rudolf Laban's and Donald Meltzer's ideas on the subject of the relationship between the psyche and the geometry of space. The vertical dimension, linked to weight and thus to gravity, was initially the least developed in Francine.
