Rucińska Zuzanna, Fondelli Thomas
Centre for Philosophical Psychology, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Interactie Academie, Antwerp, Belgium.
Front Psychol. 2022 May 4;13:867235. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.867235. eCollection 2022.
What makes metaphors good therapeutic tools? In this paper, we provide an answer to this question by analyzing how metaphors work in systemic collaborative therapeutic practices. We look at the recent embodied, enactive and ecological proposals to metaphors, and provide our own, dialogical-enactive account, whereby metaphors are tools for enacting change in therapeutic dialogs. We highlight the role of enacting metaphors in therapy, which is concerned with how one uses the metaphors in shared process of communication. Our answer is that metaphors serve as good tools for connecting to action words, through which the client's embodiment and agency can be explored. To illustrate our view, we analyze two examples of enacting metaphors in therapeutic engagements with adolescents. Our enactive proposal to metaphors is different from others as it does not rely on engaging in explicit performances but stays within a linguistic dialog. We take metaphoric engagement as an act of participatory sense-making, unfolding in the interaction. This insight stems from enactive ways of thinking about language as a process accomplished by embodied agents in interaction, and seeing talking also as a form of doing.
是什么让隐喻成为良好的治疗工具？在本文中，我们通过分析隐喻在系统性协作治疗实践中的作用方式来回答这个问题。我们审视了近期关于隐喻的具身、生成和生态方面的观点，并给出了我们自己的对话生成式解释，即隐喻是在治疗对话中促成改变的工具。我们强调了在治疗中运用隐喻的作用，这涉及到一个人如何在共享的交流过程中使用隐喻。我们的答案是，隐喻是连接行动词汇的良好工具，通过这些词汇可以探索来访者的身体体验和能动性。为了阐明我们的观点，我们分析了在与青少年进行治疗互动时运用隐喻的两个例子。我们对隐喻的生成式解释与其他解释不同，因为它不依赖于进行明确的表演，而是停留在语言对话之中。我们将隐喻参与视为一种在互动中展开的参与式意义建构行为。这一见解源于将语言视为由具身主体在互动中完成的过程的生成式思维方式，并且将交谈也视为一种行动形式。
