Year
2014
Degree Name
Doctorate of Psychology - Clinical
Department
School of Psychology
Recommended Citation
Hains, Alex, Metaphor comprehension in the treatment of people with schizophrenia, Doctorate of Psychology - Clinical thesis, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, 2014. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/4217
Abstract
People with schizophrenia demonstrate significant abstraction deficits, typically measured via metaphor interpretation tasks. Despite these deficits, people with schizophrenia have benefitted from psychological therapies laced with metaphorical language. This research examined one possible explanation for this contradiction by examining whether metaphors presented in the context of therapy have more salient meaning for the reader than metaphors that were developed for the purposes of a neuropsychological assessment. It was proposed that therapeutically oriented metaphors would facilitate better access to autobiographical memories and subsequently result in more accurate metaphor interpretation.
FoR codes (2008)
111714 Mental Health
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.