Metaphor in Psychotherapy
A descriptive and prescriptive analysis
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2013
VII, 211 pages
978-90-272-7161-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is increasingly concerned not just with describing metaphors in discourse, but how they could be used more adroitly in purposive 'real world' contexts such as psychotherapy. On the other hand, while a growing number of mental health professionals believe that metaphors contribute in some way to the psychotherapy process, their ability and willingness to use metaphors might be compromised by a relative unfamiliarity with the various nuanced aspects of metaphor theory. The present analysis of metaphors in authentic psychotherapeutic talk brings these theoretical aspects to the forefront, and suggests how they can be applied to enhance the use of communication of metaphors in psychotherapy. It should be of interest to metaphor researchers, mental health professionals, and discourse analysts in general.
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- Metaphor in Psychotherapy
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- 1. Introduction: A metaphor renaissance
- 1.1 From language to cognition, and back
- 1.2 Metaphors in psychotherapy
- 1.3 Towards a descriptive and prescriptive analysis: Aims and outline
- 1.4 Remarks on methodology and data
- 1.4.1 Data sources and transcription conventions
- 1.4.2 Metaphor identification and description
- 2. The nature of psychotherapeutic discourse
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Layers of context in psychotherapeutic discourse
- 2.3 The ideational resources of metaphors
- 2.3.1 Embodied knowledge
- 2.3.2 Cultural knowledge
- 2.3.3 Individual-specific knowledge
- 2.3.4 Socio-cultural situatedness and metaphor
- 2.4 The rhetorical development of metaphor
- 2.4.1 Correspondence: Systematic mappings between domains
- 2.4.2 Class inclusion: Extraction of superordinate categories
- 2.4.3 Career-of-metaphor: Integrating correspondence and class inclusion
- 2.4.4 Conceptual blending: On metaphoric creativity
- 2.5 The consistency, variability, and variation of metaphor in discourse
- 2.6 The co-text of metaphoric expressions in discourse
- 2.7 The prescriptive aim: Contributions to psychotherapy
- 2.7.1 Uniformity and depth: Rethinking the mechanism of metaphor
- 2.8 Summary
- 3. The ideational resources of metaphors: Embodied, cultural, and individual-specific knowledge
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 'Stabilities' in metaphoric discourse
- 3.3 Analysis
- 3.3.1 Background of therapist and patient
- 3.3.2 Session 1: "There's this giant wall around me"
- 3.3.3 Session 2: "I am Sara"
- 3.3.4 Session 3: "The little boy is locked up in me!"
- 3.3.5 Session 4: "I want to give birth"
- 3.4 The Prescriptive aim: Applying knowledge of complementarity
- 3.4.1 The Biopsychosocial model of metaphor therapy
- 3.4.2 The 7-step interview protocol
- 3.5 Summary
- 4. Metaphor types and the rhetorical development of metaphors
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Metaphor types as a discourse derivative
- 4.3 The alignment metaphor type for 'conceptual explication'
- 4.3.1 Conceptual explication in psychotherapy
- 4.4 The category metaphor type for 'principle highlighting'
- 4.4.1 Principle highlighting in psychotherapy
- 4.5 Shifting discourse circumstances in psychotherapy
- 4.5.1 Global-to-specific shift in discourse focus
- 4.5.2 Pragmatic complexities: A case of boundary violation
- 4.6 The prescriptive aim: Applying knowledge of metaphor types
- 4.6.1 Two protocols for developing patient metaphors
- 4.6.2 Metaphor types as differnt bridges between sources and targets
- 4.7 Summary
- 5. Metaphoric consistency and variability as therapeutic discourse strategies
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Categories of metaphoric consistency and variability
- 5.3 Analysis
- 5.3.1 Metaphoric consistency
- 5.3.2 Metaphoric variability: Same source, different targets
- 5.3.3 Same target, different sources
- 5.3.4 Switching between different sources and targets
- 5.4 The prescriptive aim: Towards a consideration of the therapeutic functions of metaphor variabili
- 5.5 Summary
- 6. From therapeutic discourse to the discourse of therapy
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Motivation and specification of Therapy is a Journey at four levels
- 6.2.1 Level 1: The primary and conceptual metaphoric level
- 6.2.2 Level 2: Theorisation
- 6.2.3 Level 3: Therapist training models: The river and the road journey
- 6.2.4 Level 4: Actual therapeutic talk
- 6.3 Summary of journey metaphors across the four levels
- 6.4 The prescriptive aim: Discourse metaphors as feedback
- 6.5 Summary
- 7. The co-text of metaphors: Discourse markers as signalling devices
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Signalling/tuning devices in the co-text and context
- 7.3 The co-occurrence of discourse markers and metaphors
- 7.4 Analysis
- 7.5 The prescriptive aim: Leveraging upon the cognitive and social functions of discourse markers
- 7.6 Summary
- Appendix
- 8. Summary, emergent themes and future directions
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The descriptive and prescriptive aims: A synthesised summary
- 8.3 Emergent themes
- 8.3.1 Metaphors operate over different scales of therapeutic activity
- 8.3.2 Metaphors fulfil ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions
- 8.3.3 Metaphor use and management as both 'science' and 'art'
- 8.4 Future directions for metaphor research and psychotherapeutic practice
- 8.4.1 Other approaches to metaphor in psychotherapy
- 8.4.2 Turning therapeutic implications into actions
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
