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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Metaphors are increasingly recognized for their therapeutic potential.
  • Existing theories often focus on cognitive or representational aspects of metaphor.
  • Systemic collaborative therapy emphasizes shared communication and interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the mechanisms by which metaphors function as effective therapeutic tools.
  • To propose a novel dialogical-enactive account of metaphor in therapy.
  • To explore how metaphors facilitate change within therapeutic dialogues.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of recent embodied, enactive, and ecological theories of metaphor.
  • Development of a dialogical-enactive framework for understanding therapeutic metaphors.
  • Examination of two case examples of metaphor use in adolescent therapy.

Main Results:

  • Metaphors effectively connect to action words, enabling exploration of client embodiment and agency.
  • Enacting metaphors within linguistic dialogue promotes participatory sense-making.
  • Therapeutic change is facilitated through the interactive use of metaphors.

Conclusions:

  • Metaphors are powerful tools for enacting change in systemic collaborative therapy.
  • The dialogical-enactive approach offers a unique perspective on metaphor's role in therapeutic interaction.
  • Understanding metaphor as 'doing' within dialogue enhances its therapeutic utility.