“…It has been recognized in the psychiatric (Houlding & Holland, 1988;Langosch, 1987;Shelton, 1999) and psychotherapeutic (McLoughlin, 2000) literatures. Recent studies have examined the role of poetry and metaphorical representation (Gibbs, 1994;Lakoff & Johnson, 1980Lakoff & Turner, 1989;Turner, 1998) in Freudian psychoanalysis and in psychiatry (Santarpia, Blanchet, Venturini, Cavallo, & Reynaud, 2006;Santarpia, Venturini, Blanchet, & Cavallo, 2012). In psycho-oncology, the SANTEL technique, in which Baudelaire's poetry is used to help breast cancer patients reconfigure the erotic body image, has been developed by Santarpia, Tellène and Carrier (2013).…”