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Bonde, Lars Ole: Analogy And Metapher In Music Therapy Theory ...
suddenly realize, that it should be me! Someone has stolen the castle from
me. But it is my castle, and have a right to take it back!
(Respighi) I have to go inside, to the area between the wall and the castle.
There is a garden there, and the atmosphere is quiet and still. I know why:
Time has stopped here! There is something very sad about it: Time stopped,
when the castle was stolen. The fruit trees need to be cut, a gardiner
should take care of it. But time stopped, when I left... But I am back now,
and it feels like coming home (tears).
(Turina) The castle is in good shape, it is clean and shines white... I feel
body tension all over: the tension goes with coming back: I feel cold, there
is a coldness inside me [a carpet is provided], even if my body wants to
produce warmth. [Tp: ?Does the feeling have a shape?] It is a bright blue,
square box, wrapped in blue paper with strings aorund it. I want to throw it
away, but don’t know where and how. I throw it into the fire, it burns! I
feel warmer, but it doesn’t go away easily.
(Vaughan Williams: Rhosymedre) I enter the castle again, there is a warm
living room with a fireplace and a bathtub. There is a majestic, good
atmosphere in the room. I want to take in the warmth from the fireplace,
and I can do that.
(POSTLUDE : M. realizes that the castle is a self image and interprets it: she
has let her boyfriend invade and ‘steal’ it, and thus she has turned cold and
stuck. The butterflies are metaphors of her delusions and her naive dreams
about the relationship. She feels a deep satisfaction getting “her castle”
back, and finding it in good shape. Anger/coldness doesn’t go away that
easily, she knows it will take time. - Draws MANDALA: Finding love (#9))
References to examples in the GIM literature: Bush (1996), Short (1997),
Smith (1997, case study #1), Hanks (1992), Wesley (1998).
A special type of level three metaphor is the “therapeutic narrative”: When
therapy is terminated (or for the last session), the therapist may write a
narrative using core metaphors from (some of) the sessions, thus giving back
to the client the therapist’s own experience of the process. Or the client
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