Entwicklungen in der Katathym Imaginativen Psychotherapie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung neuerer körperbezogener Konzepte

After a short general description of guided affective imagery (H. C. Leuner) more recent developments in the method are traced. Building on various further developments of general psychodynamic concepts in the area of therapeutic relationship and the importance of the body in early self-development, the effects on understanding and treatment techniques in guided affective imagery will be presented. Both the implications for the imaginative event itself as well as for the phases of verbal processing are explained and presented using corresponding method-specific publications and case studies.