Therapeutic metaphors for children and the child within

In collaboration with Margaret O. Ryan.. Foreword by Ernest L. Rossi.

Foreword - Ernest L. Rossi. Introduction - Beginnings. Part 1 - Prisms of metaphor. 1 The nature of metaphor. 2 Metaphor in child therapy. 3 Ingredients of storywriting. Part 2 - Creating therapeutic metaphors. 4 Gathering information. 5 Learning the language of the child. 6 Three-level communication: bringing it all together. Part 3 - Multidimensional applications. 7 The artistic metaphor. 8 Cartoon therapy. Epilogue. Appendix: Childhelp USA Prospectus: Brothers and sisters emergency care program - Comic book project

'Milton H. Erickson pioneered the naturalistic use of stories and metaphors as one of his ingenious ways of evoking change in his patients. Now, Mills and Crowley have taken the spirit of innovation and exploration inherent in Erickson's approaches and applied it to an exciting new arena of child therapy. The result is a fluid and multifaceted method for creating metaphors that constellate a hearling array of unconscious learnings and resources within the child.'

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