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Hi Dr. Dave,
Great interview with Kim on metaphor! I work suicidal clients and metaphor. For 25 years I worked as the primary day therapist with over 16,000 suicidal “patients” on the mental health unit of a large public hospital near Seattle. From that direct experience, I created an educational therapy for people with deep despair, hopelessness, and/or recurrent suicidal thinking. It is called Contextual-Conceptual Therapy (CCT). Last September — exactly one year ago — I was the keynote speaker at the 2014 World Suicide Prevention Day Conference. (Title of my talk: “Breaking Suicide’s Code: Understanding the Metaphorical Language of the Suicidal Person”). From the response I received, I have been invited back to Ireland in November to present a two-day training in both Cork and Dublin. I am writing you for three reasons: 1) to thank you for today’s wonderful broadcast with Kim ; 2) to wonder if you have any “contacts” in Ireland with whom to share our training information; also 3) if you ca, to please pass on our contact info to Laura Just (sp?) who might be interested to come from London to attend our training in Dublin.
Again, thanks a lot. I am now planning to be a regular listener!
Fredric Matteson
Fredric@SuicideTherapy.com
http://www.SuicideTherapy.com
I have been reading psychology books for almost 55 years, since the age of 15. I finally got the
greatest benefit when I discovered W.H. Sheldon’s somatotype theory of temperament. While
many are quick to call this quackery I am happy to see that psychology has been elevating the
importance of our bodies in shaping who we are. Your guest mentioned Lakof who is at the
forefront of what has become practically a revolution called Embodied Cognition. Embodied
Cognition is unraveling some knotty problems in explaining human behavior.
Sheldon’s classification of body types into endomorph (comfort seeking, gut) mesomorph (action
oriented muscle) ectomorph (nervous system restraint) are a significant source of how the
particular body that carries the brain influences the organism’s behavior.
In the sample experiment you did with Kim I noticed you metaphorically started with
your head and worked your way “down” or really “deeper” into your physique. That might
explain what “depth” psychology really is. Instead of exploring the endless chatter in our brains
we need to reconnect with our bodies and simply feel. It’s back to Esalen.
The only thing that I thought was unusual about the discussion was Kim declaring the
“war” metaphor as bad. That is clearly a response that is “passive”. To do battle really means
“effective action” which for many depressives is the therapeutic remedy for hoplessness.