Product reviews for Metaphoria

An ideal companion to the author's excellent Expectation: The Very Brief Therapy Book, Metaphoria provides an overview of metaphor based therapy. Learned and scholarly, with many references to source materials the book is well written and provides a fascinating insight into a wealth of therapies that have metaphor at their heart. I found the early chapters on the structure, language and delivery of metaphor somewhat heavy going ” perhaps I am too familiar with that territory. The later sections covering the many different approaches to using metaphor in therapy, though, are excellent.

Many enjoyable metaphors are presented in the text, as examples, but this is not a collection of metaphors as such. There are numerous such collections available including the popular Magic of Metaphor series by Nick Owen, also from Crown House Publishing.

Overall Metaphoria is a good, scholarly introduction to the science and practice of metaphor. It will be a useful reference point for therapists of all ilks.