what is rational emotive therapy using imagery?
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Imagery techniques\nTime projection: this technique is designed to show that one’s life, and the world in general, continue after a feared or unwanted event has come and gone. Ask the client to visualise the unwanted event occurring, then imagine going forward in time a week, then a month, then six months, then a year, two years, and so on, considering how they will be feeling at each of these points in time. They will thus be able to see that life will go on, even though they may need to make some adjustments.\n\nThe ‘blow-up’ technique: this is a variation of ‘worst-case’ imagery, coupled with the use of humour to provide a vivid and memorable experience for the client. It involves asking the client to imagine whatever it is they fear happening, then blow it up out of all proportion till they cannot help but be amused by it. Laughing at fears will help get control of them. Again, the use of this technique requires sensitivity and appropriate timing.
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Each of these models of hypnosis gives rise to a set of techniques the therapist may employ in the treatment process. The method will to some extent depend on the patient’s susceptibility and the nature of the treatment planned.\n\nIn the treatment of psychological conditions, the hypnotherapist uses the hypnotic state to relax the patient in order to employ a technique in psychotherapy which could be analytical, cognitive, or behavioural. Thus hypnotherapy is a useful adjunct in the treatment of most of the non-psychotic mental disorders, particularly the anxiety disorders, phobias, and certain addictive behaviours. In these disorders it is the experience of arousal, or anxiety, that serves as a cue for an unwanted behaviour that is aimed at reducing the unpleasant feeling of anxiety. Hypnosis by addressing the anxiety directly can alleviate the need to perform the problem behaviour, for example smoking. In addition, suggestions are made to the effect that the patient will no longer exhibit the problem behaviour.\n\nIn the treatment of psychosomatic disorders (physical disorders that are caused or aggravated by thoughts, emotions, or behaviour) hypnotherapy has been shown to have some effect. In the skin condition eczema it can be suggested to the sufferer that rather than experiencing an itch, the patient is in fact experiencing pleasant cool water flowing over the affected area. If the subject can learn to achieve this state through self-hypnosis, then at times of itchiness the subject can apply the technique and reduce further skin damage from scratching, and itching.\n\nThere are claims that hypnotherapy can work in the modulation of pain, such as that experienced in dental treatment; however, not everyone can respond to it; also the depth of hypnosis in itself does not always correlate with being pain-free. For this reason the technique is restricted to managing fear and anxiety in patients.
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Try these websites for at least a partial exerpt from D. Goleman's book, "Emotional Intelligence":\n\nhttp://www.spiritsite.com/writing/dangol/\n\nhttp://www.connected.org/learn/emotion.html
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crtical thinking [reasoning n judgement]\nlymbic system control [control of adrenaline etc.]\nimpulse control\nmemory \nplanning\n\nhope this helped!
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Adler had his whole theorem based on sociological cooperation.  This answer could only depend on the counseling context/subject matter.  Are you working with an Eros complex?  A Sociopathic viewpoint?  Socio-apathy?
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The official diagnosis needs to meet the following requriements, as indicated by each symptom cluster--which I've identified by letter--(according to the DSM-IV-TR and the ICD-10):\nA. exposure to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present:\n1. you experience, witness or was confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death or seriuos injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of the self.\n2. your response involves intense fear, helplessness or horror. (Children may express this via disorganized  or agitated behavior).\nB. The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in one or more of the following ways:\n1. recurrent, intrusive and distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions.\n2. recurrent distressing dreams of the evetn\n3. acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring  (i.e., a sense of reliving the event, which can be through illusions, hallucinations, and/or dissociative flashback episodes).\n4. intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the event.\n5. physiological reacitivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.\nC. Persistent avoidence of stimuli associated with the traumatic event and numbing of general responsiveness, as indicated by three or more of the following:\n1. efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma.\n2. efforts to avoid activities, places, people that arouse recollections of the trauma.\n3. inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.\n4. markedly diminished interest or participation in activities the individual used to engage in.\n5. feeling of detachment or estrangement from others.\n6. restricted range of affect (e.g., unable to have loving feelings).\n7. sense of a foreshortened future.\nD. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal, as indicated by 2 or more:\n1. difficulty falling or staying asleep\n2. irritability or outburst of anger\n3. difficulty concentrating\n4. hypervigilance\n5. exaggerated startle response\nE. These disturbances must occur for more than 1 month\nF. These disturbances cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning\n\nNOTE:\nAs a psychologist, I see a lot of PTSD or symptoms similar to PTSD. It can be tricky to accurately diagnose, even for trained professionals. As a consequence, it tends to be over diagnosed. If you think you have this problem you should see a psychologist (perferrably one with a Ph.D. or Psy.D.). The other thing to recognize is that much of the research on this topic suggests that these symptoms will remit after 3 to 6 months, especially if you have a supportive social network who you are comfortable talking to and can openly discuss your feelings about the trauma.
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Actually, you have to look at something else first.\nPeople don't go to a therapist to feel better unless they didn't do their homework on what going to therapy is like. Peopel expect to leave therapy feeling better.\nTherapy is designed to help you see your self-image better.  Here's the problem:\n1) We all have multiple self-images.\n2) Some of them are false.\n3) Some of us are VERY attached to our self-images.\n4) Looking at them makes it hard to keep up false self-images.\n5) People who make us look at them are a threat to our self-images.\n6) Since we rarely differentiate (try to keep seperate) real threats to our safety vs. threats to our self-image we often react with fear, then anger, then attack to challenges to our self-image.\n7) This leaves us stuck with a faulty self-image because we confused reality knocking on our door with an actual threat to our survival.\n\nIf you are resisting therapy, yes, you are angry.  The only way to know for sure is to look deeply at why you are angry, and discuss this with, you guessed it, your therapist.  At the same time, if you don't trust your therapist, in most cases you can choose a new one, but it will only prolong your pain to keep avoiding the real reason, whatever it is, if you are resisting therapy.\nHiding things, including your dissatisfaction, will not help.  Tell them.  If you are a minor, tell your parents everything you can (they are legally and financially responsible for you).\nRemember, if you are angry, that means you're scared of something and seeing a threat.  IF the threat is "just" lack of progress, then change therapists.  If the threat is something else, like getting too close to the truth, you've got a GOOD therapist, and need to face it like an adult.  We never stop growing if we're smart.  I've only known one real fully adult person in my life and I'm 43!  Trust yourself to know when you're squirming away from the truth, and when you're standing still.  Ask your therapist to be more aggressive in finding the problem.  If this causes you to squirm, you know what the problem is.  You don't want them looking too close, so stick with it and look.
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The Imagination of Imagery
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Sure, there's CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy;\nI've watched our clinic psychotherapist work w/some of the patients and I'm impressed... she doesn't prescribe meds, but she has her own way of curing people's issues.\nCBT shows you new ways of seeing things and overcoming fears, so you can live your life.\nIt's very real, no quackery, no touchy-feely stuff, if you go to the right person.
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I am assuming that you believe this is beyond the normal level of fear that a person has in this regards.  With that assumption, there are a lot of things you can do.  Get a therapist, get a self-help book on phobias or face your fears and go skydiving (just kidding).  A lot of people get over phobias by facing their fears but your case isnt appropriate for that for obvious reasons.  \n\nA therapist will teach you about irrational thinking and educate you on what choices you have in regards to what you believe, think or feel.  They will show you methods of writing down all your thoughts about it and then go through them one by one and determine if they are real or irrational - it works really well when you tackle those thoughts one by one. \n\nOr you could look up statistics and figure the real odds of something like that happening to you.  I am an "odds" person and that got me over the fear of flying.  If you are a logical person like me, that may be all you need to know to get over it.
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It sounds like you are talking about a counselling technique. It would be listening to a clients responses and clarifying them for the client by summarizing major points and clarifying what client is feeling. In doing so you are allowing the client to explore there own feelings and actions without making them defensive because you are not telling them what to do but merely redescribing what they are saying. IT makes them feel they are heard and understood.
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I highly recommend a book called Feelings Buried Alive Never Die.  There is a simple emotional release technique described in the book that, when done each day for 5-10 minutes, can help ease extreme emotional upsets and even some physical ailments associated with emotional problems.\n\nI've used this example before in another answer, but I'm going to use it again:\n\nI live in small, cramped quarters and often find myself bumping into things.  When I bumped into things in the past I would immediately become OVERWHELMINGLY ANGRY.  The anger troubled me greatly, much more than the momentary pain from bumping into things.  I used the emotional release technique in the book and I've not been angry from bumping into things again.  \n\nAlso, I used to suffer with chronic, ever present anxiety/guilt feelings.  I used the technique for that as well and I've felt peaceful and content with my life and circumstances and relationships overall since.  \n\nI believe I will have to continue to use the technique, but it's totally worth it!  Please look into it!
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Methods and philosophies abound along with consultants and consulting companies willing to take your money. The current methodology is what the current favorite of the consultants happens to be leading to the program of the year for larger companies. To me, they are all transactional analysis wrapped up with pretty bows and ribbons. I've always tried to go back to what I consider the tried and true. It has stood me well over 40 years in supervision and management.\n\nTransactional analysis, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is a psychoanalytic theory of psychology developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s.\n\nRevising Freud's concept of the human psyche as composed of the Superego, the Ego and the Id, Berne postulated instead three "ego states", the Parent, Adult and Child states [1], which were largely shaped through childhood experiences.\n\nUnhealthy childhood experiences could damage the Child or Parent ego states, which would bring discomfort to an individual and/or others, in a variety of forms including many types of mental illness.\n\nBerne considered how individuals interact with one another, and how the ego states affected each set of transactions. Unproductive or counterproductive transactions were considered to be signs of ego state problems. Analysing these transactions, according to the person's individual developmental history, would enable the person to "get better". Berne thought that virtually everyone has something problematic about their ego states and that negative behaviour would not be addressed by 'treating' only the problematic individual.\n\nBerne identified a typology of common counterproductive social interactions, identifying these as "games".\n\nBerne presented his theories in two popular books on transactional analysis. As a result, TA came to be disdained in many mainstream mental health circles as an example of "pop psychology". A light rock song, "Games People Play", reinforced the idea of lightweight inanity.\n\nTA was also dismissed by the conventional psychoanalytic community because of its radical departures from Freudian theory. However, by the 1970s, because of its non-technical and non-threatening jargon and model of the human psyche, many of its terms and concepts were adopted by eclectic therapists as part of their individual approaches to psychotherapy. It also served well as a therapy model for groups of patients, or marital/family counselees, where interpersonal (rather that intrapsychic disturbances) were the focus of treatment.\n\nThe more dedicated TA purists banded together in 1964 with Berne to form a research and professional accrediting body, the International Transactional Analysis Association, or ITAA. The organization is still active as of 2006.
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I have anxiety and it works for me. Usually there is no single method to cure anxiety or other related disorders, but EMDR can be useful. \n\nApparently, the rapid eye movement turns off the negative chemicals in your brain, and it reduces anxiety. EMDR has gotten me through several situations where I was feeling very anxious. \n\nYes, you can do it on yourself, with just a bit of practice. Try getting a book on relaxation techniques or stress control - they should have the details. I learned EMDR myself from a book, and it wasn't hard.
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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), is a psycho-therapeutic tool that is suppose to relieve psychological conditions such as stress, depression, anxiety, addictions, and phobias to name a few.  It's supposedly works by stimulating stress points with your fingers (no needles) throughout the body.  I don't know much about it, however, to get a more in-depth understanding you can check out www.emotionalfreedom.com/articles/eftprocess.html.  I hope this helps/helped a little.
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"In order to burn out, one needs to actually have been on fire at one time"\n\nMany creative people, myself included, have very strong emotions, and they aren't always "nice" Rage, anger, grief, despair- to joy, ectasy, and desire! Most people are content with the status-quo, and say, "don't rock the boat". Somtimes, though, boats need to be rocked.\n\nIntense feelings often precipitate a spiritual awakening. A person has only 2 choices- be overwhelmed by them, or learn to harness them. Those that succeed in harnessing them can change the world. It takes work, though. \n\nRemember, anger is the spirit's way of letting you know someone is stepping on your emotional toes. You need to learn to look past the anger to describe, in your own words, what is really making you angry. (I am still learning that path, believe me!)\n\nThings that helped me learn to cope in more effective ways: karate, writing, modern poetry recitals, art, mountain climbing, research, and service to humanity. Also, learning to stand up for myself in an assertive manner, telling off people who really needed to be told off, learning diplomacy, and increasing my vocabulary (calling someone a detestable sycophant is so much more rewarding than saying they are kissing the boss's ass!) Also learning to be genuine. Remember your intensity will make you scary to some, but will often act like a magnet for all the right people when you learn to channel it.\n\n          Good luck. Oh yeah, driven, creative people make better lovers too. Pass it on!