Author: Elyse Sommer
Publisher: Visible Ink Pre
Keywords: dictionary, metaphors
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1578591376
ISBN-13: 9781578591374
Rates a recommendation to lovers of language. ?? William Safire, New York Times. A masterful metaphor, like a picture, may be worth a thousand words. By comparing two unlike objects or ideas, it illuminates the similarities between them, accomplishing in a word or phrase what could otherwise be expressed only in many words, if at all. Metaphors Dictionary is an expansive collection of 6,500 colorful classic and contemporary comparative phrases (with full annotations and a complete bibliography of sources). The Metaphors Dictionary revisits most of the great and respected names in the annals o
Author: Philip Barker
Publisher: Brunner-Mazel
Keywords: psychotherapy, metaphors, using
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 1985
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0876307160
ISBN-13: 9780876307168
Authors:George Lakoff, Mark Johnso,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: live, metaphors
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1980-04-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0226468011
ISBN-13: 9780226468013
"An engaging, accessible discussion, replete with examples, of the varieties of metaphor and how they work."--Mary Sirridge, Teaching Philosophy
Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: metaphors, aids, metaphor, illness
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-08-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312420137
ISBN-13: 9780312420130
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good
Author: D. Corydon Hammond
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: metaphors, suggestions, hypnotic, handbook
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 1990-06-17
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 039370095X
ISBN-13: 9780393700954
Designed as a practical desktop reference, this book is the largest collection of hypnotic suggestions and metaphors ever compiled.
Author: George W. Burns
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: therapy, metaphors, using, stories, healing
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2001-03-22
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0471395897
ISBN-13: 9780471395898
Using folktales and other metaphoric stories can aid the healing process Just as stories have the power to enrich our lives, shape the way we perceive and interact with the world, and reveal the wonders of the human spirit, so too can they play an important and potent role in therapyhelping people develop the skills to cope with and survive a myriad of life situations. 101 Healing Stories celebrates the rewards of using parables, fables, and metaphors in therapy as a nonthreatening means to help clients discuss problems and consider possible solutions. George W. Burns examines the
Author: David Gordon
Publisher: Meta Publications
Keywords: looking, glass, others, helping, metaphors, therapeutic
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1978-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0916990044
ISBN-13: 9780916990046
