Summary: A long recorded conversation between Andy and Roni Matar, mainly about metaphor. Topics include figurative versus metaphorical versus literal language, conceptual metaphors, clean language, and how a song’s lyrics can be interpreted. They also discuss how practitioners use metaphor with clients and the claims some make about the unconscious mind.
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Author: Andrew T. Austin
Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.