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MeSH Heading: Imagery, Psychotherapy
Tree Number(s): E02.190.525.249; F04.754.462
Unique ID: D019018
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019018
Annotation: a psychotherapy technique; do not confuse with the imagery or mental images produced by the imagination ( = IMAGINATION)
Scope Note: The use of mental images produced by the imagination as a form of psychotherapy. It can be classified by the modality of its content: visual, verbal, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthetic. Common themes derive from nature imagery (e.g., forests and mountains), water imagery (e.g., brooks and oceans), travel imagery, etc. Imagery is used in the treatment of mental disorders and in helping patients cope with other diseases. Imagery often forms a part of HYPNOSIS, of AUTOGENIC TRAINING, of RELAXATION TECHNIQUES, and of BEHAVIOR THERAPY. (From Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, vol. 4, pp29-30, 1994)
Entry Term(s): Directed Reverie Therapy; Guided Imagery; Imagery (Psychotherapy); Imagery Psychotherapy; Imagery, Guided; Imagery, Psychotherapeutic; Psychotherapeutic Imagery; Psychotherapy Imagery
Previous Indexing: Relaxation Techniques (1980-1995)
Public MeSH Note: 2020; was IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY) 1996-2019
History Note: 2020 (1996); was IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY) 1996-2019
Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/06/08
Revision Date: 2019/01/18

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- Psychotherapy [F04.754]

Imagery, Psychotherapy Preferred

Concept UI: M0028397
Scope Note: The use of mental images produced by the imagination as a form of psychotherapy. It can be classified by the modality of its content: visual, verbal, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthetic. Common themes derive from nature imagery (e.g., forests and mountains), water imagery (e.g., brooks and oceans), travel imagery, etc. Imagery is used in the treatment of mental disorders and in helping patients cope with other diseases. Imagery often forms a part of HYPNOSIS, of AUTOGENIC TRAINING, of RELAXATION TECHNIQUES, and of BEHAVIOR THERAPY. (From Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, vol. 4, pp29-30, 1994)
Terms: Imagery, Psychotherapy Preferred Term
Term UI T000950560
Date01/18/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2020); Imagery, Psychotherapeutic
Term UI T000950559
Date01/18/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2020); Imagery Psychotherapy
Term UI T000950561
Date01/18/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2020); Psychotherapy Imagery
Term UI T000950562
Date01/18/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2020); Guided Imagery
Term UI T056751
Date01/10/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Imagery, Guided
Term UI T056752
Date01/10/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Psychotherapeutic Imagery
Term UI T000950558
Date01/18/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2020); Imagery (Psychotherapy)
Term UI T056754
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996)

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