**1.5 Exploring the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music**

There are many ways that personal and individualized archetypal imagery can be evoked, and one therapeutic modality is the Bonny Method of GIM [83]. This current chapter uses the modality of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) as the vehicle for bringing out experiences of motherhood, via a unique case with a clinical series, which will be further explained in the method section of the paper. In conjunction with the temporal nature of music, the GIM method creates a narrative of inner processes, rather like the clients creating their own inner movie, where the music forms the soundtrack. As an active and interactive music psychotherapeutic method with insight-oriented reconstructive goals [84], GIM therefore provides an opportunity for exploring issues of motherhood. Inner change can be depicted using the imagery process of GIM, and it is common for imagery including fairy tales to emerge, which can be very useful in understanding what is going on for the person, in an emergent manner [85]. Within the clinical method, session transcripts are produced within the normal documentation processes of the GIM session and a range of art-based modalities can be used to process emergent materials after the imagery experience [78, 86].

This GIM therapeutic approach specifically takes people into the imaginal realm and uses carefully selected music and specific "guiding" techniques to sustain and support an unfolding of the client's imagery process. During this process, clients are encouraged and supported to produce active and ongoing imagery in the context of carefully chosen music, rather like a waking dream, and then this material is worked within the moment using non-directive interaction occurring between the client and the therapist, which may include a wide range of supportive verbal and vocal interventions [46, 58, 87].

GIM is often practiced from a Jungian therapeutic stance [88]. It is known from clinical experience that archetypal material, in the form of fairy tales and myths, may occur within the GIM process [89, 90], but there is still a great need for more to be formally written and researched in this area. From anecdotal sources and personal experience, it seems that the manner in which the story unfolds for the client may be somewhat varied, with a tale or myth occurring in one session or over a longer series, and not necessarily in a linear narrative sequence. Clinical experience suggests that it is rare to find a whole story or archetype unfold in detail within a single clinical GIM session, and fragmented archetypal material may be produced within and across a series of GIM sessions. The client may alter the basic tale or myth at various points, in a way that is relevant to their circumstances and modes of operation. The way that clients may change various aspects of an archetypal story gives additional meaning and provides further understanding within the clinical setting. Viewing archetypal material from a Jungian stance assists the client in that the GIM therapist can encourage the client toward the next major step in the story and perhaps have some idea of how change may be achieved. For example, in order to return home when the tale is "The Wizard of Oz", clicking feet together may well be the solution, and thus the GIM therapist may gently suggest the client looks down or considers if they are wearing footwear. Thus, both client and therapist benefit from a knowledge and understanding of archetypes as they occur in the GIM process.

Combining an understanding of the inherent changes of motherhood with archetypal understandings around the role of fairy tales within the context of GIM practice, the specific questions that this research case study focuses on are:

