Emanated imagery: Shaping presupposed success.

Abstract

It is common for psychotherapy interventions used in the context of hypnosis to address events in the client's past or present including decisions, traumas, parataxic distortions (Sullivan, 1970), suppressed emotions and so on. Unlike conventional psychotherapy, hypnosis has a well-known and commonly referred to perceptual phenomenon called "future-orientation in time." While this feature has been used by various therapists, it does not appear to be routinely used as the foundation for crafted interventions. This paper briefly discusses the historical emergence and the progressive logic of using imagery in various hypnotic and non-hypnotic therapeutic approaches, how this progression from using past imagery to present imagery has currently culminated with future-to-past oriented imagery interventions and outlines the minimum necessary steps for conducting an intervention within hypnosis called Emanated Imagery. The rationale and step-by-step procedure for constructing Emanated Imagery, as well as a case example, is presented.