Healing with stories : your casebook collection for using therapeutic metaphors / edited by George W. Burns.

Other author Burns, George W. (George William)
Format Book
Publication InfoHoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2007.
Descriptionxxiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Metaphor and therapy: clarifying some confusing concepts / George W. Burns -- The healing is complete: outcome-oriented experiential metaphors in a case of major depression / George W. Burns -- An empty sadness: exploring and transforming client-generated metaphors / Richard Kopp -- And this little piggy stayed home: playful metaphors in treating childhood separation anxiety / Julie H. Linden -- Climbing anxiety mountain: generating metaphors in acceptance and commitment therapy / Mikaela J. Hildebrandt, Lindsay B. Fletcher, and Steven C. Hayes -- The case of Carol: empowering decision-making through metaphor and hypnosis / Michael D. Yapko -- The woman who wanted to lie on the floor: a social constructionist use of metaphor in a tale of two clients / Valerie E. Lewis --
Contents Trekking to happiness: no sherpa required : a utilization approach to transcending an abusive relationship / Gregory Smit -- And the two snakes fought: storybook therapy to help deal with the divorce-monster / Joy Nel -- Under fire: reflection and metaphor in narrative therapy / Christine Perry -- The door is open, the bird can fly: merging therapist and client metaphors in child therapy / Joyce C. Mills -- Everyone's life is a story: guided metaphor in changing global lifestyle / Rubin Battino -- Scared speechless: goal-oriented and multiple embedded metaphors in a case of dysphonia / Carol Lankton -- Scareless ghost, painless pasta: kids' own stories as therapeutic metaphor / George Burns -- Befriending your problems: metaphor with a self-mutilating young woman in transition / Wendel A. Ray and Jana P. Sutton --
Contents Night, night, sleep tight, don't let the sharks bite: what's missing in metaphors / Robert McNeilly -- The metaphor that sang its own sad song: therapeutic storytelling in pediatric hospice care / Roxanna Erickson-Klein -- Reclaiming poise after persecution: client-based cultural stories in trauma therapy / Angela Ebert and Hasham Al Musawi -- Of goths, fairies, dragons and CBT: joining the client's world with an evidence-based metaphor / George W. Burns -- That's not a problem: metaphor with a disruptive client in Ericksonian group therapy / Teresa Garcia-Sanchez.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006025754
ISBN047178902X
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