“I Had Emerged Into Light”: New Sources and Uses of Metaphor of Depression and Recovery

Schoeneman, Thomas J.; Schoeneman, Katherine A.; Stallings, Selona

doi:10.1521/jscp.23.3.354.35455

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“…Bereaved individuals themselves may use such expressions to convey where (and when) they are in grieving process. Indeed, an individual’s choice of metaphoric structure (Schoeneman, Schoeneman, & Stallings, 2004) or other linguistic features in his or her conversational narratives (e.g., Pennebaker & Graybeal, 2001; Pennebaker & King, 1999) may provide subtle indicators of mental health and resilience.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving Forward

Ruscher

2011

Social Psychology

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Two distinct spatial metaphors for the passage of time can produce disparate judgments about grieving. Under the object-moving metaphor, time seems to move past stationary people, like objects floating past people along a riverbank. Under the people-moving metaphor, time is stationary; people move through time as though they journey on a one-way street, past stationary objects. The people-moving metaphor should encourage the forecast of shorter grieving periods relative to the object-moving metaphor. In the present study, participants either received an object-moving or people-moving prime, then read a brief vignette about a mother whose young son died. Participants made affective forecasts about the mother’s grief intensity and duration, and provided open-ended inferences regarding a return to relative normalcy. Findings support predictions, and are discussed with respect to interpersonal communication and everyday life.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving Forward

Ruscher

2011

Social Psychology

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“…While most therapists see the therapeutic utility of metaphors and many actually use metaphors in their practices, little is known about the way the metaphorical language of therapists evolves in dialogue with the client over the course of a session. That is why some researchers have underlined the need for intensive analysis of the use of metaphors in psychotherapy (for example, Cederborg, 2000;Levitt et al, 2000;Schoeneman et al, 2004). Rather than categorizing therapeutic metaphors, they propose to focus research efforts on the process of the actual use of specific metaphors by therapists.…”

Section: Metaphors and Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Micro‐analysis of a therapist‐generated metaphor referring to the position of a parentified child in the family

Parys¹,

Rober

2011

Journal of Family Therapy

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The purpose of this exploratory study is to develop a deeper understanding of the way in which the metaphorical language of therapists evolves in dialogue with a client over the course of a therapeutic session. We first briefly report on a study in which we categorized the metaphors used by therapists in twelve therapy sessions with a role-played client. Then we focus on an intensive microanalysis of one particular metaphor that was introduced in the session by one particular therapist in the categorization study: the metaphor of a fireman in the family. Our analysis allowed us a detailed look at some of the ways in which metaphorical language opens dialogical space in the session to talk about the position of parentification of the client and about the price she has to pay for this position in terms of preoccupying worries and loneliness. Furthermore our analysis revealed the delicate dialogical nature of the therapeutic process in which, in talk, the therapist takes the client’s experiencing into account all the time

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“…"Metaphorical strategies could be translated into public health strategies aimed at limiting the social and individual costs" (Schoeneman et al, 2004b, p. 344). Ultimately, we believe since "metaphor builds up our conceptual system, shaping our experience and structuring and reflecting our views of the world" (Amouzadeh & Tavangar, 2004, p. 147), it should be used to describe illnesses in positive, supportive ways that focus on recovery, hence emphasizing curability (Schoeneman, Schoeneman, & Stallings, 2004a). As demonstrated in this investigation, visual and verbal metaphors are powerful enough to endow even the most serious illness with associations of hope, strength, and inspiration.…”

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confidence: 99%