ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on two papers, one entitled "The Imagination required in our Environment" and the other "Curiosity of Mind". Imagination is the psychotherapist's instrument of understanding. A domain assumption is an all-pervading and deeply rooted attitude to life, which is rooted in the unconscious and not only colours the events, happenings, and relationships of a person's life, but also invests those events with a certain character, so that the person who said that his mother was cruel might also have said that he was unfairly treated at work, have formed a cynical attitude towards politics, and so on. When the world is a chaos of sensations coming from within people's own psychic structure and also from external sources, they cannot link them together into a meaningful whole without the creative faculty of imagination. The psychotherapist has to be guided by his feelings.
