Healing with stories
Subtitle: your casebook collection for using therapeutic metaphors
By: edited by George W. Burns.
Contributors: Burns, George W.
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780471789024
Subjects: Metaphor -- Therapeutic use.; Child psychotherapy.; Metaphor -- Case Reports.; Psychotherapy -- methods -- Case Reports.; Narration -- Case Reports.
Genres: Case Reports.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metaphor and therapy: clarifying some confusing concepts / George W. Burns; title: The healing is complete: outcome-oriented experiential metaphors in a case of major depression / George W. Burns; title: An empty sadness: exploring and transforming client-generated metaphors / Richard R. Kopp; title: And this little piggy stayed home: playful metaphors in treating childhood separation anxiety / Julie H. Linden; title: Climbing anxiety mountain: generating metaphors in acceptance and commitment therapy / Mikaela J. Hildebrandt, Lindsay B. Fletcher, and Steven C. Hayes; title: The case of Carol: empowering decision-making through metaphor and hypnosis / Michael D. Yapko; title: The woman who wanted to lie on the floor: a social constructionist use of metaphor in a tale of two clients / Valerie E. Lewis; title: Trekking to happiness: no sherpa required: a utilization approach to transcending an abusive relationship / Gregory Smit; title: And the two snakes fought: storybook therapy to help deal with the divorce-monster / Joy Nel; title: Under fire: reflection and metaphor in narrative therapy / Christine Perry; title: The door is open, the bird can fly: merging therapist and client metaphors in child therapy / Joyce C. Mills; title: Everyone's life is a story: guided metaphor in changing global lifestyle / Rubin Battino; title: Scared speechless: goal-oriented and multiple embedded metaphors in a case of psychogenic dysphonia / Carol A. Hicks-Lankton; title: Scareless ghost, painless pasta: kids' own stories as therapeutic metaphor / George W. Burns; title: Befriending your problems: metaphor with a self-mutilating young woman in transition / Wendel A. Ray and Jana P. Sutton; title: Night, night, sleep tight, don't let the sharks bite: "what's missing?" in metaphors / Robert McNeilly; title: The metaphor that sang its own sad song: therapeutic storytelling in pediatric hospice care / Roxanna Erickson-Klein; title: Reclaiming poise after persecution: client-based cultural stories in trauma therapy / Angela Ebert and Hasham Al Musawi; title: Of goths, fairies, dragons and CBT: joining the client's world with an evidence-based metaphor / George W. Burns; title: That's not a problem: metaphor with a disruptive client in Ericksonian group therapy / Teresa Garcia-Sanchez.