How therapists in cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy reflect upon the use of metaphors in therapy: a qualitative study

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    Killick et_al interviewed experienced CBT-practitioners about which metaphors they found helpful in therapy, and most of the chosen metaphors were used by the therapists in a psychoeducational manner. Mathieson et_al have shown that CBT-therapists frequently use metaphors, often for the purpose of psychoeducation - with therapists using metaphors twice as often as their patients in recorded sessions. It may be that this emphasis on therapist-generated metaphors somewhat hinders the therapists` responsiveness towards patient-generated metaphors in CBT, but this hypothesis is yet to be empirically studied. Conflicting feelings towards metaphors used by . . .

     

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