No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer | PROLUCID DREAMING (Theme Issue/Book by Akhter Ahsen)
I. Prolucid dreaming—The method of prolucid dreaming, Akhter Ahsen; Prolucid dreaming: A content analysis approach to dreams, Akhter Ahsen. II. Commentaries by Mark Blagrove, Jayne Gackenbach and Harry T. Hunt, Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., R.E. Haskell, K.M.T. Hearne, Ernest R. Hilgard, Richard P. Honeck, Irene P. Hoyt, John F. Kihlstrom and Robert Nadon, Colin Martindale and Anne E. Martindale, Peter McKellar, Robert C. Smith. III. Meta-prolucids—Prolucid perspectives: Alternate physiologies, myths as filters, and essences, Akhter Ahsen

No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter | Imagery of prayer: A pilot experiment on concepts and content, Akhter Ahsen; Characteristics of the daydreams of deaf women, Susan Anthony and Spencer Gibbins; How can a vivid image be described? Characteristics influencing vividness judgements and the relationship between vividness and memory, C. Cornoldi, R. De Beni, A. Cavedon, G. Mazzoni, F. Giusberti, and F. Marucci; The writer’s eye on image: Revising for definition and depth, Kristie S. Fleckenstein; Reported auditory imagery and its relationship with visual imagery, Loftur R. Gissurarson; The role of imagery in the processing of visual and verbal package information, Pamela M. Homer and Sandra G. Gauntt; Beliefs and the activation of mental imagery, Albert N. Katz; Effects of brief instruction in imagery and birth visualization in prenatal education, Christine Korol and Carl von Baeyer; Metamemory for the bizarre, Neal E.A. Kroll, Greta Jaeger, and Rael Dornfest; Esthetics theory: A model for the understanding of dreams and transformational therapy, John R. Means and Claudia J. French; A computer program for the block figure imagery test: A preliminary report, Joseph Rizziello and John Suler; The effect of the distinctiveness of bizarre imagery on immediate and delayed recall, Louise Sharpe and Roslyn Markham; Variability in the assessment of imagery vividness, Benjamin Wallace, Deanna L. Turosky, and Andrzej Kokoszka; Individual difference correlates of reported lucid dreaming frequency and control, Milton Wolpin, Albert Marston, Camilla Randolph, and Ann Clothier

No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer | IMAGERY PARADIGM: IMAGINATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL SETTING (Theme Issue/Book by Akhter Ahsen)
I. Imagery paradigm—1. Introductory remarks on imagery paradigms in psychology, Akhter Ahsen; 2. Imagery paradigm: Imaginative consciousness in the experimental and clinical setting, Akhter Ahsen; 3. Thunder in the tissue box, Akhter Ahsen; 4. Zero ground, Akhter Ahsen; 5. The running stream, Akhter Ahsen; 6. Divided consciousness operations: Vivid and unvivid imagery responses and their analyses, Akhter Ahsen; 7. A commentary on imagery tests, Akhter Ahsen; 8. Dynamics of hemispheric imagery: Vivid and unvivid in mental functioning, Akhter Ahsen; 9. Heartbeat as stimulus for vivid imagery: A report on individual differences and imagery function, Akhter Ahsen; 10. Hot image: An experimental study of enhanced sensory connection to the mental image, with clinical implications, Akhter Ahsen; 11. Slow potentials, TOTE, TOTEM, ISM and neo-dissociation, Akhter Ahsen. II. Critiques and comments— 12. Imagery: A feminist perspective, Jaqueline Lapa Sussman; 13. The VVIQ: A measure of mental contents, state, or trait?, David F. Marks; 14. Reliability of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire across “parental filter” and alternate form, Stuart J. McKelvie; 15. Imagery in the Eidetic Parents Test, Tess E.S. Molteno; 16. The New Structuralism: A discussion, Ernest R. Hilgard. III. Tests: Appendices—A, B, C, D ,E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R

No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter | Imagery treatment of alcoholism and drug abuse: A new methodology for treatment and research, Akhter Ahsen; Effects of focused visual imagery on cognition and depression among nursing home residents, Ivo L. Abraham, Marcia M. Neundorfer and Elizabeth A. Terris; The structuralist analysis of dream series, Mark Blagrove; Sex and age differences in visual imagery vividness, Alfredo Campos and Encarnacion Sueiro; Visual imagery and the horizontal-vertical illusion pattern, Aleeza Cerf-Beare; Effects of mental practice on performance of a psychomotor skill, Margaret O’Bryan Doheny; On the construct validity of the SOP scale, Susan E. Heckler, Terry L. Childers and Michael J. Houston; The “three pens” test for autohypnotic hallucinating: Hypnotic virtuosos versus eidetic imagers versus control subjects, Robert G. Kunzendorf; The impoverishment of human experience and eidetic imagination through the manipulation of language: The systematic destruction of language in Orwell’s 1984, Christopher A. Lucca and Jerry L. Jennings; The effect of vividness of imagery on reality monitoring, Roslyn Markham and Lisa Hynes; A test of the relationship between imagery vividness and social desirability across subject selection procedures, Richard Rinaldo and Ronald Okada; Visual versus auditory imagination: Image qualities, perceptual qualities, and memory, Jennifer Stillman and Tiffany Kemp; Imaging ability, hypnotic susceptibility, and responses to imagery-laden words, Benjamin Wallace and Mary W. Persanyi

No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer IMAGERY BIBLIOGRAPHY (Theme Issue/Book by Akhter Ahsen)
Journal of Mental Imagery, 1977-1991

No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter Ahsen’s Image Psychology, Judith Hochman; Enactive imagery: Information processing, emotional responses, and behavioral intentions, Cees Goossens; Age limitations on the efficacy of imagery mnemonic instructions, John T.E. Richardson and Sheila Rossan; The effects of guided imagery on reducing the worry and emotionality components of test anxiety, Marty Sapp; Dream perspective: A research note, Barlow Soper, Gary E. Milford and Gary T. Rosenthal; Hemispheric laterality, imaging ability, and hypnotic susceptibility, Benjamin Wallace and Deanna D. Turosky

No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer | Akhter Ahsen’s mythic vision: New Surrealism and narratology - A meeting between myth and history, Lois J. Parker; Creative imagination: Hypnagogia and surrealism, Peter McKellar; Dream-centered dream study: The pursuit of prolucidity, Jerry L. Jennings; Effects of mental imagery on creative perception, Alfredo Campos and Maria Angeles Gonzalez; The effects of variable frequency photo-stimulation goggles on EEG and subjective conscious state, J.N.I. Dieter and Jay A. Weinstein; Visual imagery and the brain: A review, David S. Loverock and Vito Modigliani; Mood inductions for four specific moods: A procedure employing guided imagery vignettes with music, John D. Mayer, Joshua P. Allen and Keith Beauregard; The “entropy” of right hemisphere activity and the restorative capacity of image thinking, Vadim S. Rotenberg and Victor V. Arshavsky; Between- versus within-subjects assessments of image vividness, Jeffrey J. Walczyk

No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter | VIVIDNESS OF VISUAL IMAGERY: MEASUREMENT, NATURE, FUNCTION & DYNAMICS (Theme Issue/Book by Stuart J. McKelvie)
1. Target article—The VVIQ as a psychometric test of individual differences in visual imagery vividness: A critical quantitative review and plea for direction, Stuart J. McKelvie. 2. Open peer commentary by Akhter Ahsen, Francis S. Bellezza, Alfredo Campos, Cesare Cornoldi, Michel Denis, Ernest R. Hilgard, Shinsuke Hishitani, Albert N. Katz, Geir Kaufmann, Robert G. Kunzendorf, David F. Marks, David G. Pearson, Alan Richardson, John T.E. Richardson, Judith A. Slee, Peter W. Sheehan, Benjamin Wallace; 3. Response to Commentaries: The VVIQ and Beyond: Vividness and Its Measurement, Stuart J. McKelvie

No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer | GUIDED IMAGERY AND EDUCATION (Theme Issue/Book by Akhter Ahsen)
1. Target article—Guided imagery and education: Theory, practice and experience, Susan M. Drake. 2. Open peer commentary by Akhter Ahsen, Jerome S. Allender and Donna Sclarow Allender, Joe Ayres, Michael Collins, Michael Coté, David Feinstein, Carol L. Flake, Michael Gayner, Judith Hochman, Mary Hookey, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, David E. Hunt, Charlene Jones, Isabella Colalillo Kates, Stanley Krippner, John P. Miller, Anne Mulvaney, Maureen Murdock, Shane Murphy, Pamela Sims, Helen J. Stewart, Joseph Weinbaum, Vera E. Woloshyn. 3. Response to commentaries: Toward a theory of guided imagery in education, Susan M. Drake. 4. Guided imagery: The quest for a science, Akhter Ahsen

No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter | Menopause: Imagery interventions and therapeutics, Akhter Ahsen; Stares and reflective gaze shifts as an index of cognitive modality, Judith A. Ackerman; A study of some psychometric properties of the Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire, Alessandro Antonietti and Marisa Giorgetti; The functionality of visuo-spatial imagery in the solution of three-term series problems, John P. Charlton; A comparison of measures of preferred processing style: Method or trait variance?, Gerard J. Fogarty and Lorelle J. Burton; The effects of bizarreness and self-generation on mnemonic imagery, Marsha Ironsmith and John Lutz; The use of visual imagery as a problem-solving tool: Classroom implementation, Thomas Lowrie; The bizarre imagery effect on memory, Calvin Mercer; An analysis of drawing performance based on visually versus verbally generated mental representations, Scott O. Murray and Dare A. Baldwin; Mental imagery and emotional responses to opposing types of music, Victor J. Viser and Thomas F. Gordon