ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author describes a new therapeutic model named Imaginative Movement Therapy (IMT). This neo-Jungian method offers a facilitative-relational approach to active imagination while emphasising the visual sensory modality. This is in contrast to other Jungian approaches to active imagination which underline other senses, e.g. tactile sense in the case of Sandplay Therapy, and the kinaesthetic sense in Authentic Movement Therapy and Jungian Psychodrama, amongst other creative Jungian approaches. This approach, pioneered by Cassar (2014, 2020, 2021), offers an alternative way of working with imagery in depth. In fact, IMT is a hybridised-integrative therapeutic modality developed from Jung’s Active Imagination and Robert Desoille’s Directed Waking Dream (Rêve éveillé dirigé – RED), two imaginative approaches that were developed in Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century, separately from each other. IMT enriches C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology with Desoille’s Directed Waking Dream method. This chapter offers a general overview of the IMT methodology and its principles grouped under three Arts, namely the art of starting a waking dream, the art of prompting and reparative interventions and the art of symbolic elaboration and interpretation. It also provides a short example so as to explain the method more clearly.
