Table 1.

Summary of imago therapy training sessions[14]

Session number	Topic of the meeting	Purpose and description of the meeting
First session	Communicating with members and committing to responsible change, examining the mental image of the relationship	Content: familiarizing the members with each other, the instructor and the rules of the group, examining a mental picture of the ideal love relationship, determining the desirable characteristics in the relationship and the expected desirable characteristics Assignment: Preparing a list of existing and expected desirable features
Second session	Investigating childhood wounds and injuries by reviewing childhood memories and examining the history of intimate relationships, discovering the main failures of childhood	Returning to the childhood home and reviewing the memories of that time, examining the couple's attachment style, writing down the positive and negative characteristics of parents, examining the unfulfilled needs for emotional connection, explaining the brain's reaction to communication failures Task: writing positive and negative characteristics of parents, determining the unfulfilled needs of childhood
Third session	Training and practice of imagistic dialogue	Teaching the three parts of imagistic dialogue: reflecting, confirming, and empathizing by listening well and practicing it in the meeting Homework: Practicing conscious dialogue (based on the three taught sections)
Fourth Session	Deep understanding of the spouse, his expectations and needs for emotional connection and investigating the effect of the hidden plans of the mind on current relationships	to the positive and negative characteristics of the spouse and writing them down, comparing the spouse with ideal mental characteristics, discussing, and discussing about falling in love from the perspective of communication imagery Assignment: Practicing conscious conversation and examining unmet emotional needs
Fifth Session	Re-romanticization by creating safe logic and healing emotional wounds, creating positive cycles of interaction, reducing negative relationships, and increasing positive relationships	Reviewing the good and sweet memories of the past in the couple's relationship, specifying unfulfilled wishes, specifying the current methods of pleasing the spouse, presenting unexpected gifts and doing joint recreational activities. Duty: Doing things that can make the wife happy.
Sixth session	Providing the opportunity for joint commitments and making sure to be together, identifying areas of conflict, conflict resolution methods and increasing the level of intimacy	Determining the ways out of the conflict, planning to use the specified solutions, teaching constructive methods of conflict resolution. Assignment: Specifying conflict prevention solutions and using them when conflicts occur.
Seventh session	Increasing feelings of security, happiness, and connectedness	Examining the unfinished and unresolved situations of the past, preparing a list of marital resentments and relationships with the spouse, specifying the desire and desires underlying each resentment, expressing requests in a positive way. Assignment: Preparing a list of infrastructure needs and communication and couple requests
Eighth session	Imagination of negative emotions, especially anger, in a safe and productive environment, resolving past resentments	Examining unresolved and unexpressed negative emotions, training to exercise constructively venting and restraining anger, empathy and forgiving each other for emotional injuries and deciding to make amends. Assignment: Training the spouse, controlling anger and ways to compensate for emotional injuries
Ninth session	The integrity of the self and the integrated self-image	Increasing self-awareness and recovering the lost self, accepting the false and denied self after accepting and applying positive and mature changes in the form of an integrated and balanced order. Homework: doing and reviewing the assignments of sessions seven and eight
Tenth session	The embodiment of love	The amalgamation of false, integrated, lost, and real selves. Talk about the changes they have observed in themselves and their spouses. Task: practicing embodied love, which leads to the practice of positive changes in the form of visualization and mental.