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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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