Imagery (Psychotherapy)

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Imagework as a means for healing and personal transformation.

This article explores the place that imagework, an interactive imagery process, has in enabling patients to make sense of physical and emotional illness and how it can be the means for healing and profound life change. It discusses how, through expanding ...
Hermione Elliott (Complement Ther Nurs Midwifery, 200308)
imagework-means-healing-personal-transformation.asp

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Psychological responses to body shape exposure in patients with bulimia nervosa.

One of the unresolved issues regarding research on bulimia nervosa concerns the question as to how patients diagnosed with bulimia nervosa respond to body image exposure. In addition, it remains unclear whether there are differential responses associated ...
B Tuschen-Caffier, C Vögele, S Bracht, A Hilbert (Behav Res Ther, 200305)
psychological-responses-body-shape-exposure-patients-bulimia-nervosa.asp

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Autonomic and EEG correlates of emotional imagery in subjects with different hypnotic susceptibility.

The autonomic and EEG correlates of the response to a cognitive unpleasant stimulation (US) verbally administered to awake hypnotizable and non hypnotizable subjects were studied. They were compared with the values obtained during a resting condition ...
L Sebastiani, A Simoni, A Gemignani, B Ghelarducci, E L Santarcangelo (Brain Res Bull, 200304)
autonomic-eeg-correlates-emotional-imagery-subjects-different.asp

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Human hypnosis: autonomic and electroencephalographic correlates of a guided multimodal cognitive-emotional imagery.

The effects of a guided neutral and unpleasant imagery involving several sensory modalities were studied in hypnotized subjects. Heart rate (HR), respiratory frequency (RF), tonic skin resistance and different electroencephalographic rhythms were ...
L Sebastiani, A Simoni, A Gemignani, B Ghelarducci, E L Santarcangelo (Neurosci Lett, 200302)
human-hypnosis-autonomic-electroencephalographic-correlates-guided.asp

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Creating family: a holistic milieu at a geriatric adult day center.

Many older persons no longer have traditional "family members" to rely on and live isolated lives, with little or no contact with either family or community. In response to this profound need for family among isolated older adults, the Geriatric Adult ...
Judith G Sanfilippo, Judith E Forker (Holist Nurs Pract, 200301-02)
creating-family-holistic-milieu-geriatric-adult-day-center.asp

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Subjective and objective assessment methods of mental imagery control: construct validation of self-report measures.

A study was conducted to examine the relationship between subjective and objective measures of mental imagery control. Eighty college undergraduates completed a battery of imagery tests and self-report measures to examine whether questionnaires that ...
Anthony Lequerica, Lisa Rapport, Bradley N Axelrod, Kaja Telmet, R Douglas Whitman (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200212)
subjective-objective-assessment-methods-mental-imagery-control.asp

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A descriptive study of the interactive guided imagery experience.

The purpose of this Study was to describe the experience of participating in Interactive Guided Imagery (IGI) from the perspective of clients. A qualitative descriptive design guided the research. Ten clients who had engaged in IGI, each with an R.N., ...
Judie A Heinschel (J Holist Nurs, 200212)
descriptive-study-interactive-guided-imagery-experience.asp

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Imagery practice and the development of surgical skills.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this review is to explore the potential role of imagery practice during the acquisition of surgical skills, imagery practice being the mental rehearsal of a skill. METHODS: The core of this review is derived from a literature ...
John C Hall (Am J Surg, 200211)
imagery-practice-development-surgical-skills.asp

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The differential functions of imagery and verbal thought in insomnia.

Individuals with insomnia were exposed to a stressor (speech threat) prior to getting into bed and were instructed to think about the speech and its implications in either images (Image group, n = 14) or verbal thought (Verbal group, n = 17). ...
Julia Nelson, Allison G Harvey (J Abnorm Psychol, 200211)
differential-functions-imagery-verbal-thought-insomnia.asp

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Philophonetics counselling for prevention of burnout in nurses.

Nurses who have self-reported burnout rate their experiences prior to and after the intervention to reveal significant reductions in their burnout experience on all items. Philophonetics counselling interventions address feelings of victimization, ...
Patricia Sherwood, Yehuda Tagar (Aust J Holist Nurs, 200210)
philophonetics-counselling-prevention-burnout-nurses.asp