ABSTRACT
The imagination plays a huge part in constructionist evaluation, and imagination with perception creates sense of reality. This chapter considers the role imagination plays in the co-construction of reality, how one can access this imagination, its role in creating disorders and how its evolution can be used to aid evaluation. The idea of a personalized possibility distribution may be heuristically compared to a likelihood distribution where the maximum possibility is a maximum likelihood. The divorce between cognition and mood has important clinical implications since a person may frequently have perfect intellectual insight into the maladaptive nature of their behaviour but yet be grabbed by the strong emotional pull to perform the behaviour nonetheless. Some psychiatric disorders can be seen as disorders of the imagination, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and delusional disorder (DD). They are considered disorders of the imagination because sense of reality is defined largely by imagination with little overlap between perception and imagination.
