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Psychology and the Poetics of Growth: Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education book cover

1st Edition

Psychology and the Poetics of Growth Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education

By Howard R Pollio, Jack M. Barlow, Harold J. Fine, Marilyn R. Pollio Copyright 1977
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge
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In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation. The first section presents the idea of figurative language in terms of linguistic, aesthetic, and philosophical background. Also included is a description of empirical techniques... Read more

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.

Biography

Howard R. Pollio University of Tennessee; Jack M. Barlow, Private Pratcuce, Knoxville, Tennessee; Harold J. Fine University of Tennessee and Marilyn R. Pollio Maryville College

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