5. Indicators of embodied schema in the transcript (Exercise 4a)
In the following table we highlight (with different colours) the
likely
embodied schema inherent in the transcript given in Exercise 4a:
Identify the likely embodied schema inherent in the following client transcript:
FACILITATOR: |
What has happened since last time?
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CLIENT: |
I felt more hopeful that the phobia will change but it just stays the
same. I feel despairing about it. I desperately want it to be different
but the phobia doesn't change. It doesn't budge. Living with it
is exhausting, restrictive. It's difficult as I haven't had any
respite. It seems to get worse. |
FACILITATOR: |
And is there anything else? |
CLIENT: |
I'm ok then I let my mind go. I
don't stop it. I can't stop it. The phobia begins to descend and I let
it come back in. I allow it to take me over. It makes me feel trapped.
I feel angry that I let it be like this again. Then the anger just
bursts out.
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FACILITATOR: |
And what would you like to have happen now? |
What do you conclude is the key motif (i.e. the pattern of embodied schemas)?
How we answered the question:
We characterise the primary motif of this client's Metaphor Landscape as a pattern of
COUNTERFORCE/NOT RESTRAIN embodied schema.