The concept of using storytelling and metaphor to create helpful or healing imagery-based suggestions has a long and deep tradition in the world's major religions, in indigenous traditions such as those practiced by Native Americans, and in traditional Chinese medicine among others. Even though this method has been practiced for several millennia, psychologists were generally slow to adopt it until the late 1960s when Joseph Wolpe incorporated ____ into his systematic desensitization method.

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The passage specifically refers to using storytelling and metaphor to create helpful or healing imagery-based suggestions, which is known as guided imagery. The other options (B, C, and D) do not involve the use of storytelling or metaphor. Additionally, the passage notes that Joseph Wolpe incorporated guided imagery into his systematic desensitization method in the late 1960s, further suggesting that the correct answer is A.

The Concept of Using Storytelling and Metaphor to Create Helpful