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?
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.
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.