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In the course of this essay I’ll describe some guiding principles of the work of active imagining. What I will say about therapy is heuristic; it ought to be tried on for size. If you viewed situations in this way, what would you do? How would you act? What would you say? And are these ways an aid, or at least some comfort, in rough weather? And, did the patient achieve what he came to you for? Can everyone agree, no matter his or her therapeutic language, on the value of the therapy?
The analyst may well learn from ordinary life and be guided by it. It is astonishing to see how difficult this can be for analysts. (Guggenbuhl-Craig, 1970)
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Greenleaf, E. (1978). Active Imagining. In: Singer, J.L., Pope, K.S. (eds) The Power of Human Imagination. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3941-0_6
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