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Imagery can be used in psychotherapy in both exploratory and analytic work as well as in the process of conflict resolution. Exploratory work may be conducted either through the use of a partially structured image, which gives the client freedom to project her or his own perceptions or feelings into the image, or through a kind of "waking dream", in which the client's unconscious issues become manifest as the image unfolds. The partially structured images may be based on themes from nature or from mythology or fairy tales; or they may evolve from perceptions of childhood experiences, especially of one's parents and family; or they may derive from current experience.
Conflict resolution may occur spontaneously from the exploratory process, as sometimes happens in dreaming. The imagery process also facilitates the client's freedom to play with various solutions to a problem, enhancing both the speed and quality of its resolution. Imagery may be integrated into virtually any psychotherapeutic format, including analytically-oriented psychotherapy,
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