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Publication details [#56482]

Charteris-Black, Jonathan. 2012. Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression. Metaphor and Symbol 27 (3) : 199–216.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | gender | mental state | metaphor | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study discusses some interesting gender differences in interviewees' metaphoric discourse on experienced depression and argues that therapists should exhort patients to employ various metaphors to express the intensity of their (negative) emotions.