
Future directions in working with imagery in cognitive therapy
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter reviews the future implications from each chapter of this book in turn. ...

Working with night-time imagery
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter discusses night-time imagery, and suggests that it may be better to encourage clients to try engaging with disturbing imagery, evoking it fully, reflecting on it, and perhaps ...
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Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes (eds)
This title has been written both for clinicians and researchers. For clinicians, it is a user-friendly, practical guide to imagery, which will enable therapists to understand imagery ...
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Working with metaphorical imagery
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter discusses a range of ways of working with metaphorical imagery, and considers strategies of socialization, evocation and assessment, micro-formulation, manipulation, ...
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Positive imagery: creating goals, developing new skills, and problem solving
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter discusses positive imagery (used to denote imagery procedures that start from the generation of positive imagery, rather than evoking negative images and trying to transform ...
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The effective components of imagery interventions in clinical practice
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
The primary purpose of this chapter is to abstract the main treatment components required for bringing about cognitive and emotional change when working with imagery in cognitive ...
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Imagery in the tradition of Beckian cognitive therapy
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter demonstrates that Beck’s philosophy and clinical observations make the perfect case for including work on mental imagery within the remit of cognitive therapy (CT). To support ...
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Micro-Formulation of imagery
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter suggests that it can be useful to ’micro-formulate’ the role of the problematic images within the wider case formulation. It outlines steps in micro-formulation, and discusses ...
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Experimental research on imagery: implications for clinical practice
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter considers the relationship between imagery and other features of cognition such as memory and emotion. In particular, the chapter focuses on the assertion that imagery has a ...
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The Third Class
Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan
in Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives (2 edn)
The third class follows the same structure as the previous classes. In this chapter, as with the others, there is a script for the opening short meditation. This is followed by typical ...
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Imagery methods
John Marzillier
in The Trauma Therapies
Chapter 6 outlines imagery methods, including imaginal reliving, cognitive restructuring, imagery rescripting therapy (IRT), holographic reprocessing (HR), and the therapeutic attractions ...
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Assessment of imagery
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter discusses techniques to assess and investigate the content of imagery, and its associated meanings; and to determine the client’s metacognitive beliefs about having imagery; ...
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Establishing the platform for imagery interventions: general principles and practices
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter outlines some general principles and practices for imagery work with clients across a wide range of situations. This chapter is divided into four sections. The first three ...
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Working with intrusive day-time images
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter examines methods of working with negative day-time images that the client experiences as relating to the present or the future, and which are not recognized as memories. These ...
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Cognition: Changing Thoughts and Fantasies
Ian M. Evans
in How and Why People Change: Foundations of Psychological Therapy
In psychological therapy cognition has two broad meanings: the content of our thoughts and the things we say to ourselves and think about, and the processes of attention, interpretation, ...
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Traditional and secular views of psychotherapeutic applications of mindfulness and meditation
Lynn C. Waelde and Jason M. Thompson
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
Expanding psychotherapeutic implementations of mindfulness and meditation (MM) raise issues about whether definitions, practices, and descriptions of meditative states should be guided by ...
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Relaxation Methods for Children and Teenagers
Tonya M. Palermo and Emily F. Law
in Managing Your Child's Chronic Pain
This chapter provides detailed training in how parents can teach relaxation-based strategies to children. The chapter begins by providing general instructions for parents on how to teach ...
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The phenomenology of imagery in clinical practice
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter discusses the phenomenology of imagery in clinical practice, and is divided into four sections: general features of imagery; specific content of imagery in different disorders ...
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Positive Imagery: creating ‘new ways of being’
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter focuses on the use of imagery to bring into existence new ways of being, using the term to refer to a new positive orientation that clients, who have previously had strong ...
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Using imagery to work with upsetting memories
Ann Hackmann, James Bennett-Levy, and Emily A. Holmes
in Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy
This chapter examines imagery that the client clearly recognizes to be a memory representation. It focuses on memories, which either intrude or are considered significant because they have ...
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