Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

of the core metaphors addressed in the interview, and PIJØs comments and
interpretations of them.
Table 7. 1 PIJØ’s comments on metaphors and narratives
Metaphors addressed - in chronological PIJØ’s comments and interpretations –
order (session #)
from interview or postlude
A painter (#2) A positive image = creativity
The pixy (#2) I laughed almost all the way home. I
recognized this rather confused person,
running around, not really knowing where it
was going.
The lake (#3) and the earth colours Water has always been very important for
me. Spontaneously I would have thought it
was the sea, however it was a lake that
emerged. It had some sort of demarcation,
but also possibilities of entry… what I
experienced was quite deep in the lake of the
hole. There was along way up. [First time the
lake emerges it is polluted, and then it
becomes cleaner and cleaner. Some sort of
transformation goes on.] It came rather… it
was in the beginning, wasn’t it. The earth
colours on the borders of the lake… but also
a lot of green. These are probably the colours
that belong to the lake. [Does it still have
meaning for you?] Yes, I think so
The castle (#4-5) Castles and fortresses have always fascinated
me. So I guess the images came from the
fascination. Houses and rooms also emerge in
my dreams, and it can be quite difficult to get
out of them, many stairs and things like that.
Difficult to get in, difficult to get out – a lot
of strange rooms.. [You know that they are
there, and that it is possible to get in?] Yes.
New rooms (#4-5) and The tangle (#5) It is something about new sides… Finding a
new place, penetrate a tangle, and get through
to the other side. [Do you feel, less
metaphorical, that you have captured new
space?] It is like acknowledging new aspects
of myself all the time, knowing them better,
Going down to the bottom of the barrel
(#6)
with greater security of being in the rooms.
(…) the feeling of going down to the bottom
[of the barrel. It was very much up and down.
I succeeded in finding ways to get up again.
’Drowning’ (#6-7) The feeling of giving up, that you don’t care
any more… is changed to a feeling of not
drowning so much, when things are
difficult…. At one time I had problems with
my boyfriend, we were almost drowning in
this and that, but we found the strength to
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