The beginning sessions of child therapy: Of messages and metaphors.

Envisioning the representational world: The client's experience of metaphoric expression in psychotherapy.

“…The notion that individuals both create and construct their psychological realities has been increasingly evident in both the developmental (Bruner, 1979; Piaget, 1951; Stern, 1985) and social psychological (Harré & Secord, 1973; Kitwood, 1980) research literature. However, it is in large part clinicians who have speculated about how our subjective experiences may be internally structured or organized (Fairbairn, 1952; Guntrip, 1971; Atwood & Stolorow, 1984) and about the unique role metaphor plays in the symbolization of what Sandler & Rosenblatt (1962) have termed the client’s representational world of tacitly held meanings (Brooks, 1985; Harris, 1987; Stantostefano, 1984).…”

Therapist participation in metaphor generation: Collaborative and noncollaborative styles.

“…The role of metaphor in psychotherapy has been receiving increasing attention from psychotherapists (Barker, 1985; Brooks, 1985). This interest in figurative language has arisen out of an interdisciplinary context of inquiry in which linguists (Bakhtin, 1985; Jakobson, 1978), philosophers (Johnson, 1981; Merleau-Ponty, 1973; Murray, 1975), and psychoanalytical theoreticians (Lacan, 1977; Arlow, 1979) have speculated about metaphor as a mode of cognition and expression.…”

Gluttons, sentimentalists and other metaphors of premature ejaculation

“…Metaphors are extensively discussed in literature (Richards, 1929), philosophy (Johnson, 198 1) and psychoanalysis (Arlow, 1979). Recently their role in psychotherapy is gaining more recognition (Barker, 1985;Brooks, 1985).…”