Aphantasia - inability to visualise
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By Sarah
Aphantasia - inability to visualise
I'm seeing a client who says they have aphantasia - the inability to visualise which makes it difficult to use scripts with visual imagery. I used a confusion induction with her last time, does anyone have any ideas for other inductions and deepeners that don't rely on visualisation? Thank you in advance.
Re: Aphantasia - inability to visualise
To help her to realize he capacity for visualization you could ask her questions about something like her car, or kitchen, or favorite jeans. Things like, what colour are they, how many doors, or pockets or what does the floor look like. When she answers the questions, ask her how she knew that information. Chances are she will realize she is referencing a picture in her mind which of course, is visualization. Otherwise direct suggestion scripts can take the place of visualization, or maybe you can use phrases like “ remember, think about, or get a sense of, instead of the term visualize.
Re: Aphantasia - inability to visualise
Thank you so much for your response Holli - very helpful
Re: Aphantasia - inability to visualise
Hey Sarah, I worked for a while with a client who couldn't visualize, but he was able to process auditory guidance quite well. It was fun inventing auditory clues (and even making the sounds myself) in session. For example for trees I used wind, or a boat the sound of waves lapping and that sort of thing.
Re: Aphantasia - inability to visualise
she does not need to visualise just ask her to pretend instead
for example pretend that your eyelds ate bonded and glued shut and that the harder you try to open them y the more stuck they become
and then test by asking them to try to open their eyes with the suggestion that the just wont open
Re: Aphantasia - inability to visualise
I find that people do visualise, but they are not aware they are doing so...when I put it to the test with my Brother - who declared he can't visualise, the five tests I put him through without telling him what my reasons were, he proved in each one, that he does indeed visualise but has created a block in his understanding of what visualisation means.. Yes, using the word pretend is a great way to overcome the block they have created around their idea of visualising.
Re: Aphantasia - inability to visualise
Use the hand drop inducuion- get client to follow your instructins such as liik into my eyes look left look right ask permission for them to press on your hand close eyes and tell them to press as hard as they can on your hand and distract by saying harder harder and then ley your hand drop suddenly without warning and say instanylt sleep and follow with deepeeners immediately rorks well in most cases
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