Guide: People's psychology has different levels, behavior is the outermost level; human logic is at the surface, and human primitive cognition is deep. The various levels of human psychology are interrelated, and changing one level can change the whole person. Behavioral counseling and treatment is by changing people's behavior and then changing people. Cognitive therapy changes people by changing their perceptions.
Psychoanalysis is to turn the original process into a secondary process and to resolve the deep complexes to the surface. Psychoanalysis translates images, especially dreams, into words of everyday thinking and then solves them.
Simply put, psychoanalysis is a kind of "top-to-bottom" psychotherapy. The healer is rational and thinks on the surface of personality, but he asks the visitor to say dreams, and the dream is in deep psychological activities; he also allows the visitors to relax and do free associations, and in a relaxed state, visit The association's association also reveals a deep subconscious mind; he also explores the secrets of the visitor's subconscious by observing the symptomatic behavior of the visitor. In this process, the healer is on the upper level, and the visitor is “retreating” into the subconscious, in the deeper layers of the mind, below. Therapists and visitors seem to go to the tomb of two people together. The visitor is a worker who wants to go down to the subconscious cemetery, and the healer is like a veteran. He can't go down, just do the command at the hole. The visitor puts the things found in the tomb - messy, muddy things - into a bucket, and the therapist uses the analytical method to make the rope to bring these things into consciousness, bring them to the surface of the personality, and then put These cleaned things are shown to the visitors, letting him know what is in their subconscious mind.
Image dialogue techniques are different from these. I remember once when I was talking about imagery technology with my peers, a fellow Liu Jun said, "This is the 'underground' work." This is indeed the case. I myself have described the technique of imagery dialogue as a kind of “bottom-to-under psychological counseling and treatment”. Because in the image dialogue, both the visitor and the healer use the original cognition and the use of the image, the deep personality of the visitor can directly communicate with the deep personality of the counselor. The healers and visitors are like diving instructors and divers, and the two are going to sneak into the depths of the mind, using the same language. Therapists often do not explain the meaning of these images, that is to say, the therapist can not always bring the deeper content of the visitor to the surface, but can directly deal with the content in the deep.
There is a premise that the lower and the lower can be psychologically adjusted: in the case where the consciousness does not understand the meaning of the image, one can have a subconscious awareness of the information and emotions conveyed by the other person with the symbolic image. In other words, we can not explain a certain dream or imagined image. At this time, perhaps our consciousness does not know what this image means, but in the subconscious, our deep personality knows that the other side’s subconscious is to say What?
I have done an experiment. I tell some dreams to people who don't understand dreams, and then let them guess the meaning of these dreams. Of course, most of their guesses are inaccurate. However, when I asked them to imagine this dream and try to understand the emotions reflected by the dream, their judgments on the emotions were basically accurate. Therefore, I think that their consciousness does not know the meaning of dreams, but in the subconscious they can feel the same with dreams.
Just as we read poetry or novels, even if we don't know the author's intentions, we will be touched by him. Because our subconscious mind understands it.
Thus, with symbolic images, the therapist uses the direct influence on the patient's subconscious level without having to ask the patient to understand the symbolic meaning of the image.