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imagery
precautions: contraindications
psychospiritual approaches

definition

THESE ARE VITALLY IMPORTANT CONTRAINDICATIONS
when using imagery or relaxation:

• making an illness worse by indiscriminate symptom removal; masking other illnesses
• transference and counter-transference reactions
• providing superficial relief, especially with psychiatric difficulties
• experiencing panic with relief of superego controls
• causing tension by using images that promote fear; conversely, causing hypotension
• causing a counterproductive physiological response
• non-referral to psychiatric professional; withholding other treatment modalities
• narrowing one's practice to only using these techniques
• excessive grandiosity and unrealistic expectations about the potential outcome
• relaxation in people with delusions or hallucinations may promote out-of-body or out-of-reality sensations, intensified anxiety, or withdrawal in depressed patients.
(Zahourek, p. 22)

see:
bodymind psychobiology
body reveals: the spirit
exploratory or mechanistic?
search for god
subjective inquiry approach
the shadow and physical symptoms
transference and countertransference
imagery: principles: receptive or programmed?
imagery: precautions: beyond individual visualizations
imagery: precautions: roles, cautions and tactics
imagery: precautions: Simontons' approach
imagery: precautions: spindrift research
imagery techniques: basic steps
imagery techniques: guided imagery
imagery techniques: image-cancer
imagery techniques: inner guides
imagery techniques: programmed
imagery techniques: smoking
imagery techniques: symptom access


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