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How does the world look to a man or woman who is sad, furious, happy, aggressive, sexual, guilty, conscience-stricken, loved, fat, ugly, etc.? And how does the world look to a man or woman in his house, at work, on vacation, in sexual situations, alone, with members of the same sex, in school, in crisis, in war, with nature, with people close to him, etc.?
For it was not so much by the knowledge of words that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. (Plutarch)
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Shorr, J.E. (1989). The Existential Question and the Imaginary Situation as Therapy. In: Shorr, J.E., Robin, P., Connella, J.A., Wolpin, M. (eds) Imagery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0876-6_11
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