Navigating The Realities Of Metaphor And Psychotherapy Research

Author : Dennis Tay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108983596
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navigating the Realities of Metaphor and Psychotherapy Research written by Dennis Tay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'real-world' commitment of cognitive linguistics is demonstrated by increasingly extensive collaboration between researchers and industry partners. Yet, there has been little critical reflection on the lessons learnt from these collaborative efforts. Beginning researchers may benefit from in-depth discussion of how various practical realities inform, constrain, or otherwise shape important methodological and/or analytic decisions. This Element reflects on long-term collaborative work between a metaphor researcher and psychotherapists, offering practical advice on navigating the latent realities of this type of research. The three foundational components of psychotherapy – the therapist, the client, and the interactional setting itself – are discussed in turn, covering issues like ethically engaging therapists in research design and data analysis, dealing with underexplored variabilities in client responses, and managing the inherent tension between spontaneity and control in an interactional setting like psychotherapy. Some thoughts on how the lessons are transferable to other research contexts are offered.

Author : Dennis Tay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271615
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphor in Psychotherapy written by Dennis Tay and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is increasingly concerned not just with describing metaphors in discourse, but how they could be used more adroitly in purposive ‘real world’ contexts such as psychotherapy. On the other hand, while a growing number of mental health professionals believe that metaphors contribute in some way to the psychotherapy process, their ability and willingness to use metaphors might be compromised by a relative unfamiliarity with the various nuanced aspects of metaphor theory. The present analysis of metaphors in authentic psychotherapeutic talk brings these theoretical aspects to the forefront, and suggests how they can be applied to enhance the use of communication of metaphors in psychotherapy. It should be of interest to metaphor researchers, mental health professionals, and discourse analysts in general.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009050702
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment written by Jeannette Littlemore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michael Pleyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009385011
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution written by Michael Pleyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of language has developed into a large research field. Two questions are particularly relevant for this strand of research: firstly, how did the human capacity for language emerge? And secondly, which processes of cultural evolution are involved both in the evolution of human language from non-linguistic communication and in the continued evolution of human languages? Much research on language evolution that addresses these two questions is highly compatible with the usage-based approach to language pursued in cognitive linguistics. Focusing on key topics such as comparing human language and animal communication, experimental approaches to language evolution, and evolutionary dynamics in language, this Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Sarah Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110898522X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Faces of Creativity written by Sarah Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative metaphor has been of central interest to the cognitive linguistic research community in recent years. However, little is known about what propels people to use metaphor in a creative way. In this Element, the authors identify and explore some of the clues that synaesthesia may provide to help us better understand the factors that drive creativity, with a particular focus on creative metaphor. They identify the factors that seem to trigger the production of creative metaphor in synaesthetes, and explore what this can tell us about creativity in the population more generally. Their findings provide insights into the nature of creativity as it relates to metaphor, emotion and embodied experience. They argue that the production of creative metaphor arises from strong affective reactions to sensory and emotional stimuli and that there is an embodied symbiotic relationship between sensory experiences, embodiment, emotion, hyperbole, empathy, metaphor and creativity.

Author : Dennis Tay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040007694
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Data Analytics for Discourse Analysis with Python written by Dennis Tay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise volume, using examples of psychotherapy talk, showcases the potential applications of data analytics for advancing discourse research and other related disciplines. The book provides a brief primer on data analytics, defined as the science of analyzing raw data to reveal new insights and support decision making. Currently underutilized in discourse research, Tay draws on the case of psychotherapy talk, in which clients’ concerns are worked through via verbal interaction with therapists, to demonstrate how data analytics can address both practical and theoretical concerns. Each chapter follows a consistent structure, offering a streamlined walkthrough of a key technique, an example case study, and annotated Python code. The volume shows how techniques such as simulations, classification, clustering, and time series analysis can address such issues as incomplete data transcripts, therapist–client (a)synchrony, and client prognosis, offering inspiration for research, training, and practitioner self-reflection in psychotherapy and other discourse contexts. This volume is a valuable resource for discourse and linguistics researchers, particularly for those interested in complementary approaches to qualitative methods, as well as active practitioners.

Author : Richard R. Kopp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134864019
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphor Therapy written by Richard R. Kopp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kevin William Grant
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1794785205
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphors in Psychotherapy written by Kevin William Grant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin William Grant examines the cognitive processes that produce metaphors in psychotherapy. The "I-Ching Task" is the measure of metaphor production applied in this research inquiry. Two cognitive processes are hypothesized to be necessary for the production of a metaphor. The first hypothesized cognitive process is sensory-imaginal processing, where attention is concentrated into one's internal experiencing and sensory awareness to form sensory impressions or sensory images. The second type of processing is called integration-synthesis processing, and this is hypothesized to work in parallel with sensory-imaginal processing. Integration-synthesis processing functions to combine conflicting or contradictory elements into an integrated whole. Metaphor is the meeting point of these processes, and all of them are important in the production of metaphor in psychotherapy. Revised and updated from the first edition published in 1991.

Author : Sana Loue, JD, PhD, MSSA
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826119530
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformative Power of Metaphor in Therapy written by Sana Loue, JD, PhD, MSSA and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative or metaphor therapy utilizes the patient's own memories and anecdotes as a method for tapping into and confronting the many layers of the complex inner self. The book is particularly innovative in the using narrative or metaphor therapy with adults suffering from severe mental illness. Unlike other books on the use of narrative therapy, this book focuses on the use of pre-scripted narratives that can be used with individuals to examine their personal situations, as well as techniques to guide individuals in the development of their own narratives. A comprehensive and detailed guidebook for narrative therapists, this book addresses various experiential therapeutic interventions.

Author : Richard Stott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199207496
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Guide to Metaphors in CBT written by Richard Stott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oxford Guide to Metaphors in CBT, Building Cognitive Bridges is a remarkable, memorable, and continually fascinating book, one that will be on my repeated reference list for years to come." Robert Leahy, Clinical Professor of Pscyhology in Psychiatry at Well-Comell University Medical College --