Imagery Current Perspectives
The fifth volume of Imagery emanates from the matrix of presentations offered after the conventions of the American Association for Mental Imagery for the years 1987 and 1988. The first meeting was held in Toronto; the second at Yale University. An overvi
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Current Perspectives
IMAGERY
Current Perspectives Edited by
Joseph E. Shorr Institute for Psycho-Imagination Therapy Los Angeles, California
Pennee Robin Institute for Psycho-Imagination Therapy Los Angeles, California
Jack A. Connella Institute for Psycho-Imagination Therapy Los Angeles, California
and
Milton Wolpin University of Southern California Los Angeles, California
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Imagery: current perspectives / edited by Joseph E. Shorr . . . [et al.]. p. cm. Based on the Ninth Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, held in conjunction with the Second World Conference on Mental Imagery, June 25-28,1987, in Toronto, Canada, and the Tenth Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, held June 17-19,1988, in New Haven, Connecticut. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4899-0878-0
1. Imagery (Psychology) —Therapeutic use —Congresses. 2. Imagery (Psychology) — Congresses. I. Shorr, Joseph E. I I . American Association for the Study of Mental Imagerey. Conference (9th: 1987: Toronto, Canada) I I I . American Association for the Study of mental Imagery. Conference (10th: 1988: New Haven, Conn.) RC489.F35I44 1989 89-77532 616.89'14-dc20 CIP
Based on the Ninth Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, held in conjunction with the Second World Conference on Mental Imagery, June 25-28, 1987, in Toronto, Canada, and the Tenth Annual Conference of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, held June 17-19, 1988, in New Haven, Connecticut
ISBN 978-1-4899-0878-0 ISBN 978-1-4899-0876-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-0876-6
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989 © 1989 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1989
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PREFACE The fifth volume of Imagery emanates from the matrix of presentations offered after the conventions of the American Association for Mental Imagery for the years 1987 and 1988. The first meeting was held in Toronto; the second at Yale University. An overview of the presentations covered such a variety of subjects that we thought the subtitle would be most appropriately--Current Perspectives. For the first time in five volumes, two contributions are related to anthropological imagery by Caughey and Brink. John Caughey, whose book, Imaginary Social Worlds pioneered the social psychology approach to the silent inner imagination, offers a fine chapter in anthropological imagery of his own experiences with Sufi mystics in Pakistan and Micronesian Islanders in the Western Pacific compared to middle-class Americans. Nicholas Brink follows with a chapter on "The Healing Powers
