Psychology and the Poetics of Growth : Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education (Paperback)

Preface.  Part I: Figurative Language  1. Why Figurative Language?  2. Models of the Metaphoric Process  3. The Measurement of Metaphor and Some Preliminary Findings  Part II: Figurative Language and the Process of Psychotherapy  4. Metaphor in Psychotherapy  5. Insight in Psychotherapy  6. Metaphor and Insight in Psychotherapy: Some Empirical Results  Part III: Figurative Language, Children, and the Educational Context  7. The Development of Figurative Language  8. Figurative Language and the Educational Process  9. Making it More: Evaluating Methods for Teaching Figurative Language.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.