Working with Internalized Relationships through a Kinesthetic and Kinetic Imagery Process

Abstract

The unique importance of each mode of representation (enactive, image, and lexical) in enabling clients to derive personal meaning from their experience is underscored. The author offers a rationale for accessing and processing unconscious content receptively through enactive and image systems; she illustrates how client generated kinesthetic and kinetic images may be used experientially to retrieve, re-enact and work through less conscious affective and ideational aspects of internalized relationships.