WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF GUIDED FANTASY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY?
PPC PRIVATE PSYCHOTHERAPY CLINIC -SENIOR ACCREDITED PSYCHOTHERAPIST-Dr.Fawzy Masaoud-LONDON, ENGLAND
The historical foundations of Guided Fantasy are found inpsychoanalysis. In the famous case of Anna O. (Breuer and Freud, 1895), a directed mental imagery technique was employed, but Freud later discarded the use of guided imagery, and developed methods involving free association and dream analysis.Growing out of this analytic tradition, Kretschmer (1922) and Happich (1938) developed meditative approaches to psychotherapy, and Schultz (1956) used a systematic method for using the mind’s images called the “autogenic training technique.” Especially significant to the more recent publicizing and legitimizing of fantasy psychotherapy were the methods of French psychotherapist Robert Desoille and German psychiatrist Hanscarl Leuner. Desoille’s (1966) work with the waking dream (rêve éveillé) demonstrated that therapist-directed daydreaming could lead patients to increased self-understanding and emotional maturity. Leuner’s (1969) “guided affective imagery” technique involves the guiding of the subject through a series of structured fantasy situations, each with a specifictheoretical purpose…
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