Art therapy secret #3 revealed: Think metaphorSome might argue that visual metaphors are really symbols [images that represent something else by association, resemblance, or convention] and to ...

Clients and therapists use metaphor and symbol to assist in self-expression. Metaphors are essential to the therapeutic process, not simply for illustration, but they can also serve as a framework ...

Introduce or revisit the idea of symbolism by showing common symbols, such as those for your school, first aid, bathrooms, breast cancer awareness, etc. and ask the class to define “symbol.” Next, ...

PostEverything We always spoke of our love in metaphors. But symbols couldn’t sustain our marriage. It turned out marriage isn't a tree, or a rock, or a roof, or any of the other words we'd ...

Embodied cognition takes this idea and runs with it: The theory defines metaphor as the loose mapping of one conceptual field onto another and says we think in constant metaphors, importing the ...

Recently published open-access in Metaphor and Symbol, the article is thefirst of its kind to analyse Catalan textsand is also one of the few studies that focuses on content written spontaneously ...

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