Imaging' or 'visualization' has also become part of therapeutic practice in both self-help and clinical settings, and here the contradictory possibilities and potent ambiguities over biomedical technology, body, self, and other emerge poignantly.

The immune system has become a lucrative terrain of self development practices, a scene where contending forms of power are evoked and practiced. In Dr. Berger's Immune Power Diet , the 'invincible you' is urged to 'put immune power to work for you' by using your 'IQ (Immune Quotient)' (Berger, 1985, p.186). In the great tradition of evangelical preaching, the reader is asked if 'You are ready to make the immune power commitment?' (1985, p.4)

In visualization self-help, the sufferer learns in a state of deep relaxation to image the processes of disease and healing. In order both to gain more control in many senses and to engage in a kind of meditation on the meanings of living and dying from an embodied vantage point in the micro places of post-modern body. These visualization exercises need not be prototypes for Star Wars, but they often are in the advised literature..."

(Donna J. Haraway, "Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, The reinvention of Nature" 1991, chapter: Biopolitics of post-modern Bodies, p. 225)