Therapist participation in metaphor generation: Collaborative and noncollaborative styles.

Angus, Lynne; Rennie, David L.

doi:10.1037/h0085381

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“…A series of post-session qualitative studies exploring metaphor in psychotherapy sessions found that metaphors have profound experiential impact and meaning (Angus & Rennie, 1988, 1989Rasmussen & Angus 1996, 1997. The referential, representations, and expressive capacities of metaphors are thought further to promote communication between client and therapist as they assist in the development of a shared language over the course of therapy.…”

Section: Metaphor and Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression

Charteris‐Black¹

2012

Metaphor and Symbol

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Section: Metaphor and Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression

Charteris‐Black¹

2012

Metaphor and Symbol

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“…These and other different approaches to using metaphor all share the central idea that target domain(s) should be comprised of the therapeutic issue(s) at hand, while source domain(s) should come from experientially concrete knowledge which is external to the therapeutic situation. This is unsurprisingly consistent with Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and examples of experientially concrete knowledge which could be recruited to construct therapeutic metaphors include salient cultural themes (Dwairy 2009) and patients' personal experiences (Angus & Rennie 1988), which naturally includes the type of BE theorised in cognitive linguistics.…”

Section: Psychotherapy Metaphor and Ptsdmentioning

confidence: 77%

Bodily experience as both source and target of meaning making

Tay

2014

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Bodily experiences (BE) are often theorized by cognitive linguists as sources of meaning making, encoded and projected at the levels of grammar, semantics, and discourse. For example, Conceptual Metaphor Theory regards embodied image schemas (Johnson 1987) and, more recently, live simulations of embodied experiences (Gibbs 2013) as vital to the emergence and understanding of conceptual metaphors. Interestingly however, BE also feature as targets or topics in certain discourse contexts, which leads to underexplored scenarios where BE is simultaneously a source and a target of meaning making. This paper presents examples of metaphors in psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a case in point. In psychotherapy, experientially concrete sources are often used to conceptualize abstract issues such as emotions and subjective experiences. In the case of PTSD, however, bodily experiences turn out to be both potential source concepts as well as target topics of therapeutic discussion, a phenomenon seldom discussed in cognitive linguistics. I examine psychotherapy transcripts involving victims of the 2010-12 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, discuss how this source-target simultaneity of BE is exploited for therapeutic ends, and highlight three strands of implications pertaining to cognitive, discursive, and strategic aspects of metaphor use in psychotherapy. I conclude with a more programmatic statement about psychotherapeutic discourse as a productive site of inquiry for applied cognitive linguistics and applied metaphor research.

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“…Unlike much of the empirical research on the use of metaphor in psychotherapy that focuses on how client-or therapist-generated metaphoric language is employed (e.g., Angus & Rennie, 1988;Levitt, Korman, & Angus, 2000;McMullen & Conway, 1994;Tay, 2016), Hamburg's case studies are in keeping with a theoretically-based, practice-oriented literature that has connections to the work of Milton Erickson. In this latter literature, the focus is on indirect messaging (e.g., use of allegory) as a way of facilitating client change and on the employment of often seemingly simple or actually paradoxical tasks or exercises designed to provoke change in entrenched patterns of behavior.…”

Section: Use Of Metaphor In Psychotherapymentioning

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When Skill and Wisdom Merge

McMullen¹

2018

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Sam Hamburg's (2018) case studies of the use of metaphoric tasks in psychotherapy take us into the storied course of therapy with "Margie" and with "Amy." In the nuances of Hamburg's accounts of these two sometimes similar, often different case studies, we see how metaphoric tasks can be conceived, implemented, and understood, and how the sensory-evoking, relationship-enhancing potential of metaphor can be enacted. We also see at work a deeply committed, thoughtful, and skilled practitioner-researcher who is, at once, cautious in his claims about the relation between metaphor use and therapy outcome, confident in what he knows about the practice of psychotherapy, and wise in his integration of the two.Key words: comment; metaphoric tasks; use of metaphor in psychotherapy; case studies; clinical case studies ______________________________________________________________________________ Like a compelling metaphor, Sam Hamburg's (2018) case studies are elegant, evocative, multi-layered, and generative. He has written in beautifully rich detail, with care and compassion, and with convincing openness and self-reflection about his use of metaphoric tasks in each of two courses of psychotherapy. Apart from what his narratives of the two cases can tell us about the use of metaphor in psychotherapy, they exemplify elements of contemporary metaphor theorizing in action, foreground important learnings from psychotherapy research and practice, and speak to questions of evidence and knowing.

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Therapist participation in metaphor generation: Collaborative and noncollaborative styles.

Abstract: This article is based on the results of a dissertation by Lynne Angus in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Ph.D.

Cited by 87 publications

References 35 publications

Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression

Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression

Bodily experience as both source and target of meaning making

When Skill and Wisdom Merge

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