Using the sixth sense: The place and relevance of language in counselling
Titel:
Using the sixth sense: The place and relevance of language in counselling
Auteur:
Owen, Ian R.
Verschenen in:
British journal of guidance & counselling
Paginering:
Jaargang 19 (1991) nr. 3 pagina's 307-319
Jaar:
1991-09-01
Inhoud:
Counsellors' primary skills, apart from listening to clients' words, lie in responding with well-chosen words. Ideal counsellors say just the right thing, at just the right time, in just the right way. It is suggested that emphasising how words relate to cognitive, emotional and relationship events can take counselling on to new ground. In addition to felt experience being in sight, sound, feeling, smell and taste, language itself is posited as a 'sense' through which we perceive, and are joined to, our environment. From the starting point that counsellors use words to heal, attention is paid to how wrong words injure clients, how words are a major component in making relationships, and how they create and define felt experiences. 'Metaphorical schemas' are posited as bases for shaping felt experience. These schemas are a theory of subjectively felt emotion and cognitive understanding.
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