Active imagination and Adlerian psychotherapy

Authors

  • Herbert Schaffer

Keywords:

active imagination, psychic finalism, crativity, projective technique, resistance

Abstract

Schaffer explores the role of imagination in constructing future schemas and psychic finalism. He proposes a technique of “active imagination” to unlock the patient's resistance, inviting them to improvise fantastical stories together with the therapist to reveal symbolic content and projective identifications

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Published

2026-01-17

Issue

No. 2 (1974): Year II - March 1974

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