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Therapeutic metaphors for children and the child within

Title
Therapeutic metaphors for children and the child within / by Joyce C. Mills & Richard J. Crowley ; in collaboration with Margaret O. Ryan.
Author
Mills, Joyce C., 1944-
Publication
New York : Brunner/Mazel, ©1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Crowley, Richard J., 1942-
  • Ryan, Margaret O. (Margaret O'Loghlin)
Description
xxi, 261 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Presents an extraordinarily effective method for creating and using metaphors that constellate a healing array of unconscious learnings and resources in child and family therapy.
Subject
  • Metaphor > Therapeutic use
  • Child psychotherapy
  • Mental illness
  • Mental illness > Treatment
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Mental Disorders
  • Mental Disorders > therapy
  • Models, Psychological
  • Child
  • Infant
  • mental disorders
  • children (people by age group)
  • infants
  • Mental illness > Treatment
  • Mental illness
  • Infants
  • Children
  • Child psychotherapy
  • Metaphor > Therapeutic use
  • Erzählen
  • Kinderpsychotherapie
  • Metapher
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 239-248.
Contents
Part I: Prisms of metaphor -- The nature of metaphor -- Metaphor in child therapy -- Ingredients of storywriting -- Part II: Creating therapeutic metaphors -- Gathering information -- Learning the language of the child -- Three-level communication: Bringing it all together -- Part III: Multidimensional applications -- The artistic metaphor -- Cartoon therapy.
ISBN
  • 0876304293
  • 9780876304297
LCCN
86009700
OCLC
  • ocm13526635
  • 13526635
  • SCSB-1164859
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library