This paper will discuss the clinical use of musically elicited images – the referential imagery brought up either by therapeutic music listening or clinical improvisation, and created during music therapy. Clinical abstracts of group analytic music therapy will be presented to highlight the reconstruction of traumatic experiences and to illustrate the function of musically elicited images as visualized metaphorical condensations of client's ideas and feelings. The analysis of these images provides a unique opportunity for insight and integration. They connect the client into his/her feeling self, bring up associations, and help to provide a window into events and feelings, which might otherwise be closed. My theoretical approach is based on the psychoanalytical group analytic theories (Foulkes 1964, Foulkes 1990, Foulkes & Anthony 1990) and self-psychological aspects (Harwood 1988a, 1988b). The model of the mind that serves as a frame of reference for the comments that comprise the remainder of this paper draws mainly on Freud (1900), Dowling (1987), Eisnitz (1987), Cillman (1987), Ornstein (1987), Pines (1988, 1996, 2003), Rangell (1987) and Rothstein (1987).
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