TY  - THES
T1  - Metaphors in psychotherapy : from affect to mental representations
A1  - Fabregat,Myria
Y1  - 2004/12/22
N2  - The present study ventures on the pioneer terrain of affect and language in successful psychotherapy sessions and their possible preconscious integration into speech and cognitive processes. Metaphors are proposed to function as a matrix for the elaboration of cognitive and affective contents, as well as for the creation of mental representations.  From the perspective of affect research, thought processing and speech production theories, the  initial hypothesis of increased production of contextualized, well-applied metaphors in successful treatments was developed.  To this purpose, a method for the identification of metaphors was created and tested for inter-rater reliability.  Metaphor production and affects, defined as the coding of interactive non-verbal facial expression, were correlated in a sample of ten psychotherapy treatments, which had already been assessed for psychotherapy outcome with other instruments.  The former allowed to establish a correlation between facial affects and metaphors in the prediction of psychotherapeutic outcome.  In the third part of the study,  affects and metaphors were set on a time line to assess and compare their occurrence.  Through the use of a  computer software, a new procedure for the identification of repetitive patterns in time allowed an innovative, comparative  analysis of quantification and occurrence of  facial affect and metaphors in the psychotherapeutic dyad.
KW  - Affekt
KW  - Affektausdruck
KW  - Sprache des Denkens
KW  - Analytische Therapie
KW  - Linguistik
CY  - Saarbrücken
PB  - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
AD  - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken
UR  - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2004/417
ER  -