Short text Children and adolescents enjoy indulging in daydreams and fantasies. The katathym imaginative psychotherapy (KIP) takes advantage of this: it provides themes (e.g., "In the Garden," "My Dream Room," "Encounter with a Predator") that address specific areas of conflict. In the minds of the young patients, these themes appear as colorful sequences of images, accompanied by the therapist. This allows unconscious conflicts to be directly influenced through imagination. The authors provide a simple and understandable introduction to the theory and techniques of katathym imaginative psychotherapy. They present various settings and highlight the opportunities and limitations in psychotherapeutic practice. Exciting treatment examples, illustrated with numerous children's drawings, make the application of the method vivid.