Metaphoria: Metaphor and Guided Metaphor for Psychotherapy and Healing

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Coming from the school of Ericksonian psychotherapy Battino (human services Wright State U.) presents a textbook on the construction and use of metaphors in a variety of clinical therapeutic circumstances. After defining the field and surveying the literature on the use of metaphor he explores concerns about the delivery of metaphors and evaluates commonly used psychotherapeutic metaphors. His particular approach to the use of metaphor in hypnotherapy is described and the use of metaphor in a number of other therapeutic approaches is discussed. Annotation c. Book News Inc. Portland OR (booknews.com)