Imagework as a means for healing and personal transformation

Abstract

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.