Metaphors In Mind Av James Lawley, Penny Tompkins

<p>What do you do as a therapist, teacher, doctor or manager when your client, student, patient or colleague says "It''s like I''m hitting my head against a brick wall", "I''ve got a knot in my stomach" or "I''m looking for the right path to take"?<i></i></p><p><i></i><i>Metaphors in Mind</i> describes how to give individuals an opportunity to discover how their symbolic perceptions are organised, what needs to happen for these to change, and how they can develop as a result.</p><p> Based on David Grove''s pioneering therapeutic approach and use of Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling is an emergent, systemic and iterative way of facilitating the psychotherapeutic process.</p><p> This comprehensive book covers the theory of metaphor, self-organising systems, symbolic modelling, the practice of Clean Language, the five-stage therapeutic process, and includes three client transcripts.</p>