This article provides an informal background for working with affective images and states as part of therapeutic movement. It emphasizes psychosis and psychotic elements in work more generally. Writers who form a background for this work include Freud, Jung, Elkin, Bion, Winnicott, Lacan, Bettelheim, Arieti, and my own explorations, ongoing nearly 60 years. Work with one individual is focused on with emphasis on self-hate and searing emotional pain. Our relationship grows over the years, with increasing value for both of us. An implicit sense of creativity plays a special role.
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