Healing with Stories: Your Casebook Collection for Using Therapeutic Metaphors

Introduction.

What This Book Offers.

The Contributors.

The Contributions.

The Structure of This Book.

Following Your Gurus: An Opening Story.

Chapter 1 Metaphor and Therapy: Clarifying Some Confusing Concepts.

PART ONE IMPROVING MOOD.

Chapter 2 The Healing Is Complete: Outcome- Oriented Experiential Metaphors in a Case of Major Depression.

Chapter 3 An Empty Sadness: Exploring and Transforming Client- Generated Metaphors.

Chapter 4 And This Little Piggy Stayed Home: Playful Metaphors in Treating Childhood Separation Anxiety.

Chapter 5 Climbing Anxiety Mountain: Generating Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

PART TWO BUILDING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS.

Chapter 6 The Case of Carol: Empowering Decision- Making through Metaphor and Hypnosis.

Chapter 7 The Woman Who Wanted to Lie on the Floor: A Social Constructionist Use of Metaphor in a Tale of Two Clients.

Chapter 8 Trekking to Happiness—No Sherpa Required: A Utilization Approach to Transcending an Abusive Relationship.

Chapter 9 And the Two Snakes Fought: Storybook Therapy to Help Deal with the Divorce Monster.

PART THREE CHANGING PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR.

Chapter 10 Under Fire: Refl ection and Metaphor in Narrative Therapy.

Chapter 11 The Door Is Open, the Bird Can Fly: Merging Therapist and Client Metaphors in Child Therapy.

Chapter 12 Everyone’s Life Is a Story: Guided Metaphor in Changing Global Lifestyle.

Chapter 13 Scared Speechless: Goal- Oriented and Multiple Embedded Metaphors in a Case of Psychogenic Dysphonia.

PART FOUR ENHANCING HEALTH AND WELL- BEING.

Chapter 14 Scareless Ghost, Painless Pasta: Kids’ Own Stories as Therapeutic Metaphor.

Chapter 15 Befriending Your Problems: Metaphor with a Self- Mutilating Young Woman in Transition.

Chapter 16 Night, Night, Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Sharks Bite: "What’s Missing?" in Metaphors.

Chapter 17 The Metaphor That Sang Its Own Sad Song: Therapeutic Storytelling in Pediatric Hospice Care.

PART FIVE DEVELOPING LIFE SKILLS.

Chapter 18 Reclaiming Poise after Persecution: Client- Based Cultural Stories in Trauma Therapy.

Chapter 19 Of Goths, Fairies, Dragons, and CBT: Joining the Client’s World with an Evidence- Based Metaphor.

Chapter 20 That’s Not a Problem: Metaphor with a Disruptive Client in Ericksonian Group Therapy.

Using Your Loaf: A Concluding Story.

Reference.

Resource Section.

Further Reading Resources.

Contributors’ Favorite Metaphor Books.

Index.