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.
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