ABSTRACT

The richness of the human imagination has provided inventive psychotherapists with many fruitful tools for diagnosis and behavior change. Such diverse schools of therapy as psychoanalysis, behaviorism, hypnotherapy, encounter group therapy, games theory, and art and dance therapy have developed a variety of techniques based on client imagination. Family therapists, too, have seen the advantages of utilizing projective and expressive behaviors formulated in the imagination. Some of the techniques based on these behaviors are described here.