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Psychology has displayed much more prudishness about the stream of consciousness than it ever did about sex. The Victorians went so far as to cover the legs of the piano to avoid, when speaking of furniture, mentioning the words “leg” or “foot” so as not to raise sexual connotations. This strikes most of us as pretty silly today, and yet, as we study the literature of psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy for the last 70 odd years, we find a strange reluctance to acknowledge, to describe, or to study seriously that ever-changing constellation of memories, sense-data, anticipations, fantasies, rational thoughts, and images that constitute our moment-to-moment awareness as we go about our lives. To anyone but a psychologist it would seem amazing indeed that textbooks on thinking (Bourne, Ekstrand, and Dominowski, 1971; Johnson, 1955) can omit reference to the stream of consciousness and daydreaming, that introductions to personality (Mischel, 1971) or adolescence (Seidman, 1960) can ignore imagination or fantasy. Yet, until recently, psychology’s overemphasis on “public” or observable behavior barred almost any serious reference to the stream of consciousness except perhaps for such distancing, cleansing, socially acceptable code words as “epiphenomenon.”
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Singer, J.L., Pope, K.S. (1978). The Use of Imagery and Fantasy Techniques in Psychotherapy. 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_1
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