Patterns of Communication in Psychotherapy – Metaphor in Disenchantment and Melotherapy – A Comparative Study
Patterns of Communication in Psychotherapy – Metaphor in Disenchantment and Melotherapy – A Comparative Study

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes a comparative analysis of the linkage structure that intervenes in the healing process in psychotherapy, starting from ethnopsychotherapy - disenchantment and arriving to the current psychotherapeutic practice - particularizing as a genre approached through melotherapy. The purpose of psychotherapy is to trigger a change of cognitive and emotional patterns that will eventually lead to the change of the client's behavioral pattern. Any psychotherapeutic approach starts from the idea of communication between the client and the therapist, based on an inter-human relationship of a particular kind, namely the therapeutic relationship. The particular character of communication in psychotherapy is conferred by its symbolic component. Beyond the message clearly communicated by words, communication between the two partners has a series of subtle attributes that materialize in the structure of the message and the emotions conveyed through it. The analytical approach to therapeutic language has been reported to the linguistic entity of the metaphor, using as an expositional method, the comparison.

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