Riassunto
The stream of our consciousness contains an almost unceasing parade of sensation-like experiences, even in the absence of any external stimulation to produce them. We experience picture-like things, sound-like things, and more; our experiences can resemble any of our sense modalities. These experiences are what we refer to by the phrase "mental imagery." The images need not be vivid. People who doubt that they experience visual imagery are often persuaded by a simple exercise: count the windows of the house in which you live. Nearly everyone performs this task by walking around the house in imagination while counting windows, or by walking through the house counting them from the inside. The imaginary windows seem to be set in visual space. There is a temptation to point at them with an index finger while one counts, even though the images may never become vivid enough to seem like an actual visual experience. But if they seem set in visual space, if they can be pointed at, they clearly constitute a sensory-like experience in some meaningful way.
Contenuti
I. Concepts of Imagery.- The Central Place of Imagery in Human Functioning.- Imaginative Play as the Precursor of Adult Imagery and Fantasy.- Developmental Aspects of Mental Imagery: A Theory of Thematic Dissonance.- Life-Sustaining Systems and Consciousness.- A Philosophical Critique of Piaget’s View of Images as Interiorized Actions.- Images, Propositions, and Natural Signs.- II. Measurement of Imagery.- Imagery Measurement in Clinical Settings: Matching the Method to the Question.- Imagery Assessment through Content Analysis.- III. Hypnosis and Imagery.- Hypnotic Responding: Automatic Dissociation or Situation-Relevant Cognizing?.- Vivid Fantasy and Hallucinatory Abilities in the Life Histories of Excellent Hypnotic Subjects (“Somnambules”): Preliminary Report with Female Subjects.- IV. Synaesthesia.- A Comparison of Synesthetes and Nonsynesthetes.- Chromesthetic Responses to the Music of G. F. Handel.- V. Imagery and Cognitive Processes.- Brain Hemisphericity and Response to the Imaginal Processes Inventory.- Imagery, Incubation, and Right Hemispheric Learning Style as Related to Divergent Thinking.- The Interactive Effects of Imagery Learning Strategy and Originality on Learning and Long-Term Retention.- Mental Imagery and Creativity.- Self-Consciousness as a Component and Correlate of Focusing Ability.- Mental Imagery: A Memory Aid for the Older Adult?.- Training Spatial Ability.- VI. Imagery and Clinical Treatment.- A Multiple Component Model of Clinical Imagery.- The Role of Mental Events in Behavior Therapy.- The Psychologist’s Imagination and Sexual Imagery.- Using Death Imagery to Induce Proper Grieving: An Emotive-Reconstructive Approach.- Interpersonal Conflict and Mental Imagery.- The Application of Humorous Imagery Situations in Psychotherapy: Case Illustrations.- Covert Modeling in the Context of Storytelling: Observational Learning in Therapy with Children.- Kinetic Imagery in Movement Psychotherapy.- Bridging through Imagery: An Integration of the Selves through Art Therapy, a Visual Dialogue.- An Art Therapy Approach to the Drug Abuser, Correlating Behavioral, Narcissistic, and Laterality Theory.- Contributors.
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