R:> The I mean, after the first depression, rigidity had to be broken down. my [um] the religious binding, as it were, and I think religious, religion means that which is bound, but that had to be completely.... that was completely knocked out of me. R:> What, in my case, it's broken me down so I can be rebuilt. <I: Right. R:> Or so And I'm not saying everybody needs I can rebuild myself. depression they don't. But if life's circumstances, or one's path, has led one to where you can't go any further, then something a place has to be broken in (DP28 female, 20) order for rebuilding to take place. In this extract metaphor entailments of building up and breaking down imply the creation and destruction of a container; the use of one containment metaphors primes another to produce out’, out’, and ‘come ‘poured ‘breakthrough’, ‘breakdown’ etc. It is also the case that the interviewer facilitates this priming of metaphor ‘bound’ by reformulating the metaphor down’ by introducing the word that ‘broken ‘rigidity’ is then taken up by the respondent in the last exchange and is reminiscent of Burns (2007) metaphors. It may be that this more emotionally expressive use ‘collaborative’ of metaphor is something that comes more naturally to therapists who are working with women as compared with men and that in this respect gender use of metaphor is at least partially co-constructed.
R:> The rigidity had to be broken down. I mean, after the first depression, my [um] the religious binding, as it were, and I think religious, religion means that which is bound, but that had to be completely.... that was completely knocked out of me. R:> What, in my case, it's broken me down so I can be rebuilt. <I: Right. R:> Or so I can rebuild myself. And I'm not saying everybody needs depression they don't. But if life's circumstances, or one's path, has led one to a place where you can't go any further, then something has to be broken in order for rebuilding to take place. (DP28 female, 20) In this extract metaphor entailments of building up and breaking down imply the creation and destruction of a container; the use of one containment metaphors primes another to produce ‘come out’, ‘poured out’, ‘breakthrough’, ‘breakdown’ and ‘bound’ etc. It is also the case that the interviewer facilitates this priming of metaphor by reformulating the metaphor ‘broken down’ by introducing the word ‘rigidity’ that is then taken up by the respondent in the last exchange and is reminiscent of Burns (2007) ‘collaborative’ metaphors. It may be that this more emotionally expressive use of metaphor is something that comes more naturally to therapists who are working with women as compared with men and that in this respect gender use of metaphor is at least partially co-constructed.
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