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Imagework as a means for healing and personal transformation.

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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 ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003Aug in Journal: Complement Ther Nurs Midwifery (Language : eng)

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1. Complement Ther Nurs Midwifery. 2003 Aug;9(3):118-24

Imagework as a means for healing and personal transformation.

Elliott H

hermione@wellbeingaward.com

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 patients' awareness of the interconnection between body, mind and soul, the outcome of the disease process can be affected. The differences between imagework and visualisation; healing and cure are highlighted, and case notes, with examples of how imagework can help to gain a larger perspective on illness, are used.

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Hermione	Elliott	H

Affiliation: hermione@wellbeingaward.com

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Anecdotes as Topic
Holistic Nursing - methods, standards
Humans
Imagery (Psychotherapy) - methods
Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Nurse-Patient Relations
Patient Participation

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