e/Therapeutic metaphor

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has gloss	eng: Therapeutic metaphor is a type of conceptual metaphor presented as a story or other parallel to an entire aspect of a situation, related by a psychotherapist to a patient. The purpose of this is to highlight to a person, in an effective way, some aspects and lessons that otherwise they might not be able to perceive as clearly in their current situation, or to suggest new outlooks on it. Thus a therapist, told about the death of a loved one, might respond by describing two roses in a garden, one of which is dug up. Uses Marsha Linehan highlights the utility of metaphor in her work with patients with borderline personality disorder: "the use of metaphor, in the form of simple analogies, anecdotes, parables, myths or stories, is extremely important in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). Metaphors are alternative means of teaching dialectical thinking and opening up possibilities of new behaviors.
lexicalization	eng: Therapeutic Metaphor
instance of	c/Metaphors by type