Navigating the Realities of Metaphor and Psychotherapy Research

Tay, Dennis

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“…Metaphors can be used in diverse ways in psychotherapy (Barker, 2013;Cox & Theilgaard, 1997;Mathieson et al, 2020;McMullen & Tay, 2023;Tay, 2022;Törneke, 2020). Therapists may work within a client's metaphor, seeking to extend it in ways that open up new interpretations and adaptive possibilities.…”

Section: Transforming Symptoms and Sufferingmentioning

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Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Kirmayer

2023

Transcult Psychiatry

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This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry presents selected papers from the McGill Advanced Study Institute on “Cultural Poetics of Illness and Healing.” The meeting addressed the cognitive science of language, metaphor, and poiesis from embodied and enactivist perspectives; how cultural affordances, background knowledge, discourse, and practices enable and constrain poiesis; the cognitive and social poetics of symptom and illness experience; and the politics and practice of poetics in healing ritual, psychotherapy, and recovery. This introductory essay outlines an approach to illness experience and its transformation in healing practices that emphasizes embodied processes of metaphor as well as the social processes of self-construal and positioning through material and discursive engagements with the cultural affordances that constitute our local worlds. The approach has implications for theory building, training, and clinical practice in psychiatry.

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Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Kirmayer

2023

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…Their nature was to setup systematic comparisons between target and source to perform the function of enhancing conceptual understanding, and their formal structure X IS Y can be "flipped around" to produce Z IS X, where X is the original target, Y is the original source, and Z is the new target. Researchers in applied contexts like education (Wan, 2011) and psychotherapy (Tay, 2022b) have highlighted the important question of how to best elicit, or draw attention to, the presence and intended use of metaphors. This is especially important for layperson audiences who are unlikely to share the researcher's understanding despite the ostensible pervasiveness of metaphors, and who might resist or even display negative attitudes toward them (Tay, 2020).…”

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Turning metaphor on its head: a “target-to-source transformation” approach in statistics education

Tay

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Many practical applications of metaphors are based on the idea that they are static TARGET IS SOURCE structures that support unidirectional meaning transfer for various purposes. Examples include healthcare and education where metaphors build cognitive and communicative bridges between the abstract and concrete. However, real-world metaphor use is often more dynamic than static, raising the question of how practical applications could benefit from a more correspondingly dynamic perspective. Drawing upon learning models that view learner output as creative transformations of input, this article introduces a “target-to-source transformation” approach that (i) initially frames concepts unfamiliar to novice learners as metaphorical targets as per received wisdom, but after some time, and (ii) invites learners to transform these targets into source domains for new target domains of their choosing. A pilot implementation is reported in the context of a statistics course, in particular the concept of regression analysis, for humanities students. Examples of transformed metaphors include different aspects of regression as sources for creative targets like “arranging a meeting time for friends,” “finding a life partner,” and “fortune-telling.” Analysis of these examples suggests that the approach creates a sense of pedagogical consistency, allows students to exercise creativity, and gives teachers novel insights into their level of understanding. Points for critical reflection will also be raised for future development of the approach, including the need to consider oft-overlooked metalinguistic attitudes held by laypersons toward metaphors.

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Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment

Littlemore,

Bolognesi,

Warpakowski

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By exploring the associations that people make between emotions and colours, looking at how they vary across languages, and exploring the explanations that people provide for the associations that they make, this Element provides insight into the ways in which humans express emotions through colour, and the reasons why they do so. Metaphoric (and metonymic) language and thought play a key role on several levels in the formation of emotion–colour associations, interacting with physical, environmental and social factors. A strong metaphorical connection between the valence of the emotion and the lightness of the colours with which it is associated, and between the intensity of an emotion and the saturation level of the colours with which it is associated is found. However, the strength of this association varies according to the linguistic background of the speaker, and the gender in which the emotion is presented.

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Navigating the Realities of Metaphor and Psychotherapy Research

Cited by 11 publications

References 159 publications

Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Cultural poetics of illness and healing

Turning metaphor on its head: a “target-to-source transformation” approach in statistics education

Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment

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