Faculty Articles
The Significance of the Visual Image in Psychotherapy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1970
Publication Title
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training
Volume
7
Issue/Number
4
First Page
209
ISSN
0033-3204
Last Page
212
Abstract/Excerpt
Discusses 2 schools of thought on the role of imagery: (a) imagery as a defense which moves away from or screens and still gratifies indirectly the underlying impulse; and (b) imagery as a direct representation of the unconscious, an expression of the impulse itself. It is concluded that "given certain structural conditions, the visual image tends to conceal, and, given others, it reveals, what the important issues in the patient's life are."
DOI
10.1037/h0086591
NSUWorks Citation
Shapiro, D. L.
(1970). The Significance of the Visual Image in Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 7(4), 209-212.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/546
