Over a ten-year period in the nineteen-eighties I studied with Jungian analyst Phyllis Krystal. She taught me much about guided imagery and how to apply it in a therapeutic context. One of Krystal’s core questions as a therapist was, how to resource clients in a way, they no longer needed to go over the troubled relationship with their parents hundreds and hundreds of times? How could she introduce exercises that opened up a new perspective and provided them with a different parenting experience? One that allowed clients to access healing and repair, and on this basis, they could go back to the past, but better resourced.
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