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Metaphor and Meaning in Psychotherapy
Y. Siegelman Ellen
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Description for Metaphor and Meaning in Psychotherapy
Paperback. In this work, Ellen Siegelman presents metaphor as a form of symbolization uniquely suited to bridging the known and unknown, the conscious and unconscious, the personal and universal. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MMH; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
In this intriguing work, Ellen Siegelman presents metaphor as a form of symbolization uniquely suited to bridging the known and unknown, the conscious and unconscious, the personal and universal. She demonstrates how metaphor, while drawing upon one's most concrete bodily experience, points to an immensely rich area of imaginative life. The work offers an abundance of clinical data to illustrate how metaphor is a principle medium for creating the unconscious interpersonal resonances that lie at the heart of the psychotherapeutic process, including the metaphors inherent in transference and countertransference. Siegelman shows how a metaphor, when fostered, can ... Read more
In this intriguing work, Ellen Siegelman presents metaphor as a form of symbolization uniquely suited to bridging the known and unknown, the conscious and unconscious, the personal and universal. She demonstrates how metaphor, while drawing upon one's most concrete bodily experience, points to an immensely rich area of imaginative life. The work offers an abundance of clinical data to illustrate how metaphor is a principle medium for creating the unconscious interpersonal resonances that lie at the heart of the psychotherapeutic process, including the metaphors inherent in transference and countertransference. Siegelman shows how a metaphor, when fostered, can ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Number of pages
206
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780898620146
SKU
V9780898620146
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About Y. Siegelman Ellen
Ellen Y. Siegelman, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, and is an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She has authored numerous professional articles on object relations theory and on psychology and literature. She maintains private practices in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Reviews for Metaphor and Meaning in Psychotherapy
An excellent work which can make the effective use of metaphor more conscious in our daily practice of .
Psychotherapy (10/17/1993) .. ..Superb....Gives us both a theoretical and clinical understanding of the uses of the poetic imagination in depth psychotherapy....Full of rich clinical examples....Metaphor and Meaning in Psychotherapy is a rare book in our field, one in which the medium ... Read more
Psychotherapy (10/17/1993) .. ..Superb....Gives us both a theoretical and clinical understanding of the uses of the poetic imagination in depth psychotherapy....Full of rich clinical examples....Metaphor and Meaning in Psychotherapy is a rare book in our field, one in which the medium ... Read more