Abstract
“Metaphor is a particular form of language-play in which the familiar, commonplace, and down-to-earth is used to speak in a striking, often shocking—though incomplete and indirect—way, about the unfamiliar. … The processes involved in pastoral care and spiritual direction may be very different from those of psychotherapeutic intervention, but the creative—even shocking—use of metaphor in effecting change is quite similar.”
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