Metaphor in Psychotherapy -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction: A metaphor renaissance -- 1.1 From language to cognition, and back -- 1.2 Metaphors in psychotherapy -- 1.3 Towards a descriptive and prescriptive analysis: Aims and outline -- 1.4 Remarks on methodology and data -- 1.4.1 Data sources and transcription conventions -- 1.4.2 Metaphor identification and description -- 2. The nature of psychotherapeutic discourse -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Layers of context in psychotherapeutic discourse -- 2.3 The ideational resources of metaphors -- 2.3.1 Embodied knowledge -- 2.3.2 Cultural knowledge -- 2.3.3 Individual-specific knowledge -- 2.3.4 Socio-cultural situatedness and metaphor -- 2.4 The rhetorical development of metaphor -- 2.4.1 Correspondence: Systematic mappings between domains -- 2.4.2 Class inclusion: Extraction of superordinate categories -- 2.4.3 Career-of-metaphor: Integrating correspondence and class inclusion -- 2.4.4 Conceptual blending: On metaphoric creativity -- 2.5 The consistency, variability, and variation of metaphor in discourse -- 2.6 The co-text of metaphoric expressions in discourse -- 2.7 The prescriptive aim: Contributions to psychotherapy -- 2.7.1 Uniformity and depth: Rethinking the mechanism of metaphor -- 2.8 Summary -- 3. The ideational resources of metaphors: Embodied, cultural, and individual-specific knowledge -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 'Stabilities' in metaphoric discourse -- 3.3 Analysis -- 3.3.1 Background of therapist and patient -- 3.3.2 Session 1: "There's this giant wall around me" -- 3.3.3 Session 2: "I am Sara" -- 3.3.4 Session 3: "The little boy is locked up in me!" -- 3.3.5 Session 4: "I want to give birth" -- 3.4 The Prescriptive aim: Applying knowledge of complementarity -- 3.4.1 The Biopsychosocial model of metaphor therapy.

3.4.2 The 7-step interview protocol -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Metaphor types and the rhetorical development of metaphors -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Metaphor types as a discourse derivative -- 4.3 The alignment metaphor type for 'conceptual explication' -- 4.3.1 Conceptual explication in psychotherapy -- 4.4 The category metaphor type for 'principle highlighting' -- 4.4.1 Principle highlighting in psychotherapy -- 4.5 Shifting discourse circumstances in psychotherapy -- 4.5.1 Global-to-specific shift in discourse focus -- 4.5.2 Pragmatic complexities: A case of boundary violation -- 4.6 The prescriptive aim: Applying knowledge of metaphor types -- 4.6.1 Two protocols for developing patient metaphors -- 4.6.2 Metaphor types as differnt bridges between sources and targets -- 4.7 Summary -- 5. Metaphoric consistency and variability as therapeutic discourse strategies -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Categories of metaphoric consistency and variability -- 5.3 Analysis -- 5.3.1 Metaphoric consistency -- 5.3.2 Metaphoric variability: Same source, different targets -- 5.3.3 Same target, different sources -- 5.3.4 Switching between different sources and targets -- 5.4 The prescriptive aim: Towards a consideration of the therapeutic functions of metaphor variabili -- 5.5 Summary -- 6. From therapeutic discourse to the discourse of therapy -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Motivation and specification of Therapy is a Journey at four levels -- 6.2.1 Level 1: The primary and conceptual metaphoric level -- 6.2.2 Level 2: Theorisation -- 6.2.3 Level 3: Therapist training models: The river and the road journey -- 6.2.4 Level 4: Actual therapeutic talk -- 6.3 Summary of journey metaphors across the four levels -- 6.4 The prescriptive aim: Discourse metaphors as feedback -- 6.5 Summary -- 7. The co-text of metaphors: Discourse markers as signalling devices -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Signalling/tuning devices in the co-text and context -- 7.3 The co-occurrence of discourse markers and metaphors -- 7.4 Analysis -- 7.5 The prescriptive aim: Leveraging upon the cognitive and social functions of discourse markers -- 7.6 Summary -- Appendix -- 8. Summary, emergent themes and future directions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The descriptive and prescriptive aims: A synthesised summary -- 8.3 Emergent themes -- 8.3.1 Metaphors operate over different scales of therapeutic activity -- 8.3.2 Metaphors fulfil ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions -- 8.3.3 Metaphor use and management as both 'science' and 'art' -- 8.4 Future directions for metaphor research and psychotherapeutic practice -- 8.4.1 Other approaches to metaphor in psychotherapy -- 8.4.2 Turning therapeutic implications into actions -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.