I told him that I would not allow him to do this to me any more. I care too much for myself to have him destroy me. I then noticed that his appearance wasn't as menacing as it had been. He started to grow smaller and smaller until he was, in my mind's eye, no bigger than a pea. His demonic look changed into a pitiful, helpless look.
Imagery carries much complex information to the conscious mind for exploration an integration.
In the 11th session, I felt the need to help Mrs. Stevens explore more deeply the meaning of the Subpersonality she discovered in her Lower Unconscious. I asked her about her childhood, in general, and about her relationship to her father, in particular. I suspected his patterns of interacting with her might have been, as an introject, the source of her self-abusing Subpersonality. With a great emotional release, Mrs. Stevens said her father had been a Commander in the Navy, then the Principal of a High School and an alcoholic. Her mother divorced him when Mrs. Stevens was in the 2nd grade and she was forced to live with her paternal grandparents for a year and a half.