Caroline Myss, Ph.D. best selling author of "Anatomy of the Spirit" and "Why People Don't Heal"
Metaphors in Mind presents a broad integration of deep perspectives about helping people learn how to facilitate their own creativity in solving their own problems in their own way. Well done!
David J. Grove, M.S. author of "Resolving Traumatic Memories"
Be prepared for this book to launch you on a personal journey of change and development. The parade of thought provoking concepts, stories and challenges contained within will provide a reliable travelling companion to accompany you along the way.
Ernest Rossi, Ph.D, Author of "Dreams, Consciousness and; Spirit" and "The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing"
Tompkins and Lawley have written a book that provides people with a tool for profound analysis and insight. The use of metaphors as a means of evaluating how you order your world, your relationships, your occupation, and interpret the experiences of your life is invaluable. This book should be read by everyone who has an interest in expanding their awareness of why they say the things they do, and discovering how the 'contents' of their lives are sources of empowerment
Product Description
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"? Metaphors in Mind 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. 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. 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.
From the Author
Metaphors in Mind is a clear description of how to model human perception through the framework of metaphorical constructs. While this book is written as a therapeutic process, Symbolic Modelling can be seen as a description of emergence and self-organizing systems as applied to human perception and cognition. Therefore it has application to business, education, health and in many other contexts.
About the Author
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley are co-developers of Symbolic Modelling and leading authorities on the use of self-originated metaphor for personal and professional development.Penny and James are supervising psychotherapists registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) since 1993.
