Does guided affective imagery activate primary process?
Vol.1,No.3-4(2007)
Linguistic-statistical analysis of verbatim transcripts of psychotherapy sessions
The article deals with research verifying of the question whether imaginative stage in Guided Affective Imagery (GAI) activates, as it is assumed, the primary process. There are results presented for the purpose of created text analysis research of therapeutic sessions transcripts realized by the method Guided Affective Psychotherapy. An important finding concerns the significantly higher occurrence of primary processing verbal aspects in the imagery part of the GAI session. At this time, we get, by means of images, to unconscious parts of client's personality and to emotional and procedural memory contents, which then, in following interview stages of therapy, can be further appealed and processed so that they could be integrated into the conscious part of personality.
computer assisted content analysis; Guided Affective Imagery; primary process; secondary process
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