Emotion-image therapy (EIT) [analytical and effective]

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Nikolay Linde. Emotion-image therapy (EIT) [analytical and effective]

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. EMOTIONS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE

1. Emotion – criterion of correctness and successfulness

2. EMOTION AS THE MAIN GOAL

3. THE WAY YOU FEEL IS ALSO AN EMOTION

4. EMOTION AS ENERGY

5. HOW PEOPLE DEAL WITH EMOTIONS

6. EMOTION AS THE BASIS OF CHOOSING A DECISION

7. EMOTIONAL STATES

8. LEVELS OF AN INDIVIDYAL AND THE TASKS OF EIT

SUMMARY

Chapter 2. EMOTIONS AND BODY

SUMMARY

Chapter 3. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM

1. The problem’s inner structure

SUMMARY

Chapter 4. MAGES AND ANALITICAL WORK WITH THEM

1. SPONTANEUOS IMAGES

SUMMARY

Chapter 5. MAIN STAGES OF THE PROCESS OF THE THERAPY THROUGH EMOTIONS AND IMAGES

1. GENERAL SCHEME OF THERAPEUTIC WORK [10 STEPS]

2. RECOMMENDATIONS

SUMMARY

Chapter 6. WAYS OF CHANGING NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL STATES WITH THE HELP OF IMAGES

1. Methods of self-regulation with the help of images of emotional states

1.1. Visual focusing on the image of a feeling

1.2. The method of smelling an imagined smell [or olfactory method]

1.3. The method of smelling the smell of freshness

1.4. Listening to a negative audial image of a symptom

1.5. The method of contemplating of an imagined stream of water through your body

1.6. The method “Body’s smile”

1.7. The method “Breathing of the body”

2. Mental actions techniques

3. Dialogue with an image

4. Interaction of opposites

5. The change of image

6. Transfer of feelings

7. The image’s fate

8. Free dreaming

9. Magic

10. To free the energy of feeling

10.1. Freeing a feeling with the help of an imagined sound

10.2. A “raging double” method

10.3. Freeing energy with the help of an image

10.4. Method of liberating feelings from a “stone”

10.5. Watching the rain method

10.6. Listening to offences

10.7. To let express feelings

10.8. To let the ice melt

11. Simple and paradoxical permission

12. Counter– direction

13. Strengthening [energizing] a part of a personality

14. Redistribution of shares

15. Accepting the Inner Child

16. To play with mud

17. To breathe in emptiness

18. To allow the image to reveal its potential

19. To recognize the importance of the image

20. The method of returning femininity

21. Returning a “gift”, or returning evil

Commentary

22. The method of conversion of negative energy into positive

23. The method “Release”, or “Unclench your paw”

23.1. To release tension

23.2. To release debts

23.3. Release your trauma

24. The method of repentance

25. The method “And not a drop more”

26. Refusal from self– pity

27. The method of returning investments

SUMMARY

Chapter 7. ADVANTAGES AND PECULIARIRIES OF THE METHOD

1. Reasons of the EIT effectiveness

2. Differences from other psychotherapy methods

SUMMARY

Chapter 8. IMAGINATIVE EXERCISES IN THE EIT

1. Exercises for training

2. Relaxation exercises

3. Imaginative exercises

EXERCISES FOR THE SECOND STAGE OF STUDIES

Exercises on existential problems

EXERCISES FOR STAGE THREE

EXERCISES ON PHILISOPHICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS

EXERCISES TO WORK WITH THE FEELINGS OF FEAR AND ANGER

EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS

SUMMARY

Chapter 9. SELECTED THERAPEUTIC STORIES

PHOBIAS

EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCE

PSYCHOSOMATICS

PAINS DURING PERIODS

ALLERGY

BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

SKIN DISEASES

THYROID GLAND

THE PROBLEM OF LAZINESS DURING STUDIES

ANALYSIS OF COFLICTING SITUATIONS BY MODELLING THEM

DICTIONARY OF THE EIT IMAGES

REFERENCES

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Therapy through emotions and images, or emotional image therapy (EIT), is a new and original method of psychodynamic direction in psychotherapy, which makes it possible to achieve quick and significant results in the field of psychosomatics and while dealing with emotional problems. The basic idea of this method is that any emotional state can be expressed through visual, audial or kinesthetic image and further inner work with this image which transforms negative emotional state into positive.

But for this transformation to be successful it is necessary to analyze psychological reasons of this undesirable emotional state. This method of therapy is oriented at discovering the primary reason of emerging psychological problems. On the basis of images, it is possible not only to analyze psychological problem but to correct it. Thus, we can combine analysis and impact. But we cannot correct undesirable emotional state by just mechanical influence on the image. Emotional and meaningful intersubjective [interpersonal] impact is aimed at changing chronically negative emotional state; the image is just a ‘leverage’ for this work. That is why at present I use another name for therapy through emotions and images: analytically effective therapy. The state is changed by resolving the initial psychodynamic conflict.

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My student Irina Tabolina offered her original method of working with resistance. When the client, having identified himself with the image, doesn’t answer questions, doesn’t see the image and doesn’t feel anything, she asks him to stand up from the chair, move behind the back of the chair and tell who he is and who doesn’t let the client speak. If the client is still silent, he is asked to make another step back and stand behind the back of the previous imagined character. He is asked once again who he is and why he doesn’t let the client speak. This process sometimes continues as far as seven steps back. But sooner or later after one more step the client begins to speak, and then it becomes clear which parts of his personality or images of other people stopped him from moving forward. After that the resistance stops.

Other methods of work with resistance are also possible, for instance those which are traditional in psychoanalysis and in other therapeutic modalities. For example, you can praise the client for fortitude and resourcefulness that he displayed showing his resistance. You can say that he is awarded the honorary medal “Hero of Resistance”. You can conclude an additional agreement with him: “I will gain success in therapy even if my mother [my father] and my doctor don’t like it”. After that the resistance diminishes or completely disappears.

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