The use of metaphor and symbol in the healing process stretches back thousands of years. These days, traditionally trained medical practitioners have made use of metaphor and imagery with patients with cancer and other illnesses.1-3 A new process, Symbolic Modelling -- comprehensively explained in our book, Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling 4 -- follows in this tradition.
This article explains why metaphor is a natural way to describe illness and health, the importance of recognising patients'/clients' metaphors, and how working within these metaphors can activate an individual's personal healing process
Penny Tompkins and James Lawley are UKCP registered NLP psychotherapists, supervisors, coaches in business, and certified NLP trainers. Their book, "Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling" is the definitive guide to working with the symbolic domain of clients' experience using metaphor, modelling and Clean Language.
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