SFiO
The InterAction Collection
OF SOLUTION FOCUS PRACTICE IN ORGANISATIONS · Vol 2 - 2012 Edition

Making Numbers Talk; Language in Therapy

Classic SF Paper

Oct 9, 2024

insoo-kim-berg, steve-de-shazer

Abstract

The metaphor of therapy as conversation is simultaneously useful and dangerously misleading. The danger lies in what is probably an inevitable vowel shift from a to i, that is, from “therapy as conversation” to “therapy is conversation.” The vowel shift marks a transformation from metaphor to metaphor disguised as concept.

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