Extension Division
Entering the World of Patients: Communication Through Metaphoric Language
Instructor:
Training Analyst, LAISPS
As clinicians we are involved in the language of the patient that reflects unconscious conflicts, experiences, forgotten memories, etc. Listening to the patient’s story as a metaphor can be less threatening and less confrontational, allowing for deeper exploration and understanding of the meaning of their stories. It can allow the patient to maintain a degree of distance from threatening material while still working with it. In this course, techniques on how to listen and develop the story into a metaphor will be emphasized. Clinical material will provide examples of how to enhance patient-therapist communication through the use of metaphor.
Course Objectives:
- Participants will learn to define a metaphor and how to listen for it.
- Participants will learn how to understand their patients’ stories as metaphors and how to subsequently interpret their underlying message.
- Participants will learn by clinical examples from their own work and the work of the instructor how to enhance communication with their patients.
Dates: 3 Fridays, February 29, March 7 and 14
Location: 10436 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 3010
Fee: $ 120.00
This course is under review for 6 CME/MCEP units.
