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Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Text guides clinicians toward practical applications of imagery in a range of psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral therapies. Emphasizes the common features of psychotherapies and seeks to demonstrate how clinical practice can be based on fundamental psychological research in cognition, emotion, and interpersonal transactions using imagery. "This book guides the practicing clinician or student therapist toward practical applications of imagery in a range of psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral therapies. Jerome L. Singer builds on the current status of research on consciousness, narrative thought, and the human capacity for imagery representations of memories, plans, and fantasies. He draws on his more than 50 years of empirical research and psychotherapy practice as well as his personal introspections to suggest how clinicians can expand their own conscious thought and use the gift of imagery to assist patients in varied clinical approaches. The book emphasizes the common features of psychotherapies and seeks to demonstrate how clinical practice can be based on fundamental psychological research in cognition, emotion, and interpersonal transactions using imagery as a focal area"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) A comprehensive survey of the research evidence for our capacity to generate images, and the processes involved, by a premier researcher of daydreaming and imagination for more than 50 years. Drawing on a lifetime of experience both practicing psychotherapy and training clinicians, Singer argues forcefully that using imagery in psychotherapy is easily integrated into a variety of therapeutic approaches. Clinicians are shown how to make use of their patients' as well as their own ability to generate images and that these techniques can be used regardless of the clinician's theoretical orientation. Includes case examples and autobiographical material.