Emotion-Image Therapy. Analysis and Implementation. Nikolay Linde

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">      – Excellent! No tension. The feelings are fine.

      – Imagine that somebody touches your stomach, young man, for instance…

      Commentary. This is the verification of how actual the changes are with the help of an imagined situation. The hypothesis was confirmed once and for all.

      – [Looking confused.] Everything is fine. No bad feelings.

      – Do you want these changes to remain with you forever?

      – Certainly, I want it very much.

      Commentary. The sincere consent of the client is sufficient for a final fixing of the results. Now explanations may be given, they will not cause resistance.

      – Now I’ll explain to you what happened, if you don’t mind… There happened the rejection of the Inner Child as the result of your feeling yourself not wanted and not needed. The Inner Child began realizing the subconscious desire of self-destruction, that is abortion. So the Inner Child turned into a repulsive aggressive rat, attacking your stomach, and the stomach instinctively became tense. That is why you started to doubt if you will be able to have children. Now that you accepted your Inner Child it became your friend, autoaggression stopped, the tension disappeared. This is actually all…

      If you have questions or doubts about the results, we can continue…

      – No, everything is clear. I feel fine and I know that I will like that in future… I turned to another doctor and was very disappointed. Thank you so much, I didn’t believe it was possible.

      – Well, wonderful, then the séance is over.

      In about two weeks I asked her how she was feeling and got another confirmation that everything was all right.

      Commentary. The séance took 15—20 minutes, we solved the problem that was a most important problem for all the further life of Kate. A year later Kate gave birth to her first baby and came to her classes with a pram.

      3. Verification of a hypothesis

      The verification turns the hypothesis into a certainty. When the hypothesis is fully formed, it may be explained [but you shouldn’t do it every time] to the client. The confirmation of the hypothesis by the client is an important proof that it is correct. But the doctor can find some confirming arguments by other means too. It may be particularly important when your hypothesis may antagonize the client or elicit his strong resistance, in this case you shouldn’t share it with him

      The doctor can “calculate” the consequences of the problem in different areas of the client’s life and make sure that he is right by asking questions. For example, if you suspect that the client suffers from some obtrusiveness, you can ask him if he does some senseless rituals to protect himself from some accident of if he suppresses his sexual thoughts. The client may confirm he is surprised by you being so shrewd.

      Example. One day a woman called me about her teenage daughter’s hysterical behavior. Still on the telephone I told her: “But you don’t love your daughter because she is like her father whom you divorced”. She was shocked by my shrewdness, as she didn’t tell me anything about her former husband, and about his likeness with the daughter. I diagnosed this psychological case by some little indications: the way she spoke about her daughter, as she didn’t mention her father, by the style of the hysterical behavior of her daughter.

      As we have already said when working with images the verification of the meaning of images and the confirmation of the hypothesis may be a kind of mental experiment, when a client influences the image in some way, and the result of this impact which you control, is the answer to the question whether the hypothesis is correct or not.

      The criterion of the rightness of the hypothesis is the successful solution of the problem on the background of this hypothesis. This is its final confirmation. Though in case the solution was not achieved, it’s wrong to make a conclusion that the hypothesis was wrong. The correct psychological diagnosis paves the way to success but doesn’t guarantee it.

      Summary

      1. Different trends in psychotherapy work with images.

      2. Most interesting are dreams, pictures and fantasies which involuntarily reflect the personality and its problems.

      3. The images created by the client are interpreted on the background of the experience of many generations of psychologists, images speak about the things which the client doesn’t notice in himself.

      4. To deeper understand the meaning of images the doctor makes a special research analyzing images together with the client.

      5. While analyzing images the doctor is guided by a hypothesis, which takes into account symptoms, the client’s life history and special features of images.

      6. In the EIT the client is requested to ask the image about something as it was a living thing, to assume its role and on its behalf to answer questions of the doctor.

      7. You may often use not one but many images which become revealed during the analysis.

      8. When the meaning of the image is clear and it reflects the emotional state most important for this problem, the doctor asks the client to influence the image in some way and it is the means of solving the problem.

      9. If the influence is effective it is repeated till the clear therapeutic result [100%] is achieved.

      10. Images and symptoms are the basis for creating a therapeutic hypothesis. The hypothesis makes it possible to analyze the problem more exactly and adequately.

      11. The hypothesis is created on the basis of different theories and private therapeutic models as well as the doctor’s experience.

      12. A well-formed hypothesis contains answers to the main questions:

      – What unrealized [frustrated] desire [or attraction] of the client generates the analyzed problem?

      – What is the nature of the barrier not allowing the client to realize the desire?

      – What conditions or events of the past promoted the conflict?

      13. On the basis of some theory the hypothesis unites symptoms, feelings, images, the supposed psychodynamic conflict, past events, chronic negative state, generating symptoms. It is verified by additional questions and watching non-verbal behavior of the client.

      Chapter 5. Main stages of the process of the therapy through emotions and images

      In general, the EIT method may be described in the formula: a negative feeling – an image of the feeling – the analysis – an emotional transformation of the image – a positive feeling. But this description is not sufficient. In a more precise way the therapeutic process in the EIT method may presented as succession consisting of ten steps.

      The first five steps [or stages] may be defined as an analytical phase of the work, when the main psychological conflict becomes revealed. The following five phases are devoted to the transformation of the emotional state, which generates the existing problem, verifying and fixing the result achieved.

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