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A Preliminary Report on Multi-Image Immediate Impact Video Self-Confrontation

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.3.304

A multi-image closed-circuit video self-confrontation with deliberate distortion of some of the images is presented to patients for immediate impact during psychotherapy. Seeing the distorted images alongside the clear image serves to elicit free associations about past or present self-concepts and introjections, which may then lead to significant clarification and insight into the self in the here and now. The technique is not proposed as a form of therapy by itself or as a substitute for analytic psychotherapy, but rather as an adjunct to be used in appropriate contexts.

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