Healing the Trauma of Abuse Using Metaphor Therapy

  The generative question which drove David Grove in his initial creation of Metaphor Therapy was, “Where do people go when they dissociate?” Using this question and his unique integration of Client-centered therapy, Ericksonian hypnosis produced this most complete therapy to heal all aspects of traumatic abuse.

This approach directly addresses the traumatic consequences of depersonalization , i.e., being out-of-body, fragmented and  having interjected the perpetrator.

The next slide is a summary of the healing questions used in Metaphor therapy for traumatic healing. 

For more information you can look at http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/problemdomains.html. The article  includes David’s original work and his later extensions in the “Clean” use of language for Traumatic Healing.

» © 2009 Monroe Judkovics

Metaphor

Locating in Space (1)

"And where is ...?'"And whereabouts?"

"And where in your body is ....?

DefiningAttributes (2)

"Does it have a size or shape?"

"And then what happens?"

'And is there anything else about ...?

"And what kind of ...is that ..

" And that's ...like what?"

Moving Time Back (3b)

"And what happens just before ...?"And where did ..... come from?"

Basic Metaphor Clean Language Questions

© 2002 Monroe Judkovics Based on David Grove's Metaphor Healing. Modified from http://www.devco.demon.co.uk/CleanLanguage.html© copyright 1998 Penny Tompkins and James Lawley

"And would be M(2) interested in coming back into your body?"

(M2 is a fragment which is Out-of-Body)

Solution Finding (4)

Moving Time Forward (3a)

"And then what happens?"

"And what happens next'?

Start

"And what do you want?"And how do you know that

you don't ........'?

And take as much time as youneed.

And [clients words].

And when/as [clients words],

[Clean Question]?

Full Syntax

"And could .....go out of your body?"And does ...go out of your body?

(If No movement) And you want ..(name)... to leave and .....(name) .... won't leave and what could happen?

(Introjection/Possession)

"And would M(1) be interested in going to M(2) or would M(2) be interested in going

to M(1)?"And how could M1 go to M2 ?

And when could M1 go to M2 ?(M1 and M2 are in the body and disjoint.

Splitting)

And what needs to happen ...........?

"You want to do..... and you can't do ... and what could happen?"