Mental Imagery

"The current book presents select proceedings from the Eleventh Annual Conference of AASMI (The American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery) in Washington, DC, 1989, and from the Twelfth Annual Conference of AASMI in Lowell and Boston, MA, 1990. This presentation of keynote addresses, research papers, and clinical workshops reflects a broad range of theoretical positions and a diverse repertoire of methodological approaches. Within this breadth and diversity, however, four aspects of the nature of imagery stand out: its mental nature, its private nature, its conscious nature, and its symbolic nature. The mental nature of imagery--i.e., its epistemological aspect--is explored in the book's first section of articles by Marcia Johnson, Laura Snodgrass, Leonard Giambra and Alicia Grodsky, Vija Lusebrink, Selina Kassels, Helane Rosenberg and Yakov Epstein, M. Elizabeth D'Zamko and Lynne Schwab, and Laurence Martel. These first eight articles fall, essentially, into various domains of cognitive psychology, including the psychology of art and educational psychology. In the second section, the private nature of imagery is studied by Ernest Hartmann, Nicholas Spanos, Benjamin Wallace, Deirdre Barrett, John Connolly, James Honeycutt, Dominique Gendrin, and James Honeycutt and J. Michael Gotcher. These studies, which fall within the realm of personality and social psychology, bring to light the fact that many very public interpersonal behaviors reflect very private images. Such behaviors range from interpersonal rapport with a hypnotist, to rapport with a forensic jury"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Reflection, Reality Monitoring, and the Self....Pages 3-16 The Importance of Mental Imagery in Map Reading....Pages 17-22 Aging, Imagery, and Imagery Vividness in Daydreams: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Perspectives....Pages 23-33 Levels of Imagery and Visual Expression....Pages 35-43 Transforming Imagery into Art: A Study of the Life and Work of Georgia O’Keeffe....Pages 45-52 The Nature of the Theatrical Imagination: How Theatre Going Affects Children’s Imagination, and What Children Say About Their Theatre Experiences....Pages 53-58 Children’s Reactions to Imagery Experiences....Pages 59-62 The Role of Guided Imagery in Educational Reform: The Integrative Learning System....Pages 63-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Thin and Thick Boundaries: Personality, Dreams, and Imagination....Pages 71-78 Imagery, Hypnosis and Hypnotizability....Pages 79-88 Hypnotic Susceptibility, Imaging Ability, and Information Processing: An Integrative Look....Pages 89-100 Deep Trance Subjects: A Schema of Two Distinct Subgroups....Pages 101-112 Adults Who Had Imaginary Playmates as Children....Pages 113-120 Imagined Interactions, Imagery, and Mindfulness/Mindlessness....Pages 121-128 An Intrapersonal Process in Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Imagined Interactions Among Temporary Sojourners....Pages 129-138 Influence of Imagined Interactions on Communicative Outcomes: The Case of Forensic Competition....Pages 139-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness in General, Imagery in Particular: A Materialistic Perspective....Pages 147-157 Imagination and Perceptual Development: Effects of Auditory Imaging on the Brainstem Evoked Potentials of Children, Adult Musicians, and Other Adults....Pages 159-165 Imagery and the Sinistrality of Symptoms....Pages 167-177 Guided Imagery and Immune System Function in Normal Subjects: A Summary of Research Findings....Pages 179-191 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 The Use of Imagery in a Multimodal Psychoneuroimmunology Program for Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases....Pages 193-198 Dealing with Pain: The Psychological Mechanisms that Intensify Pain....Pages 199-206 Clinical Imagery: Holistic Nursing Perspectives....Pages 207-213 Imagery in Sport: An Historical and Current Overview....Pages 215-224 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Repairing Narcissistic Deficits Through the Use of Imagery....Pages 227-232 The Recovery of Traumatic Memories: The Etiological Source of Psychopathology....Pages 233-240 When Evil Appears in Imagery....Pages 241-253 God Images....Pages 255-256 Using Sound to Deepen and Enliven Imagery Work....Pages 257-261 Psychodrama: An Introduction to Imagery in Action....Pages 263-265 Imagery in Conjunction with Art Therapy....Pages 267-270 The Conference as Therapy....Pages 271-274 Back Matter....Pages 275-277