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Papers by Myria Fabregat
Geist, Gehirn, Verhalten: Sigmund Freud …, 2008
Metaphors in Psychotherapy: From Affects to Mental Representations Myria Fabregat and Rainer Krau... more Metaphors in Psychotherapy: From Affects to Mental Representations Myria Fabregat and Rainer Krause This paper will examine and elucidate the main results from the research we car-ried out on language and affects. Over the following years we undertook several collaborative ...
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 2008
In accordance with Freud&... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 2008
In accordance with Freud&... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
Dialogue, 2009
... dans la famille (comme la mort non élaborée d'un bébé), dans certaines adoptions et ... more ... dans la famille (comme la mort non élaborée d'un bébé), dans certaines adoptions et situations d'infertilité. ... faire des alliances et de trouver des remèdes parce qu'elles ne sont pas porteuses des rancunes masculines. ... Parents en exil : psychopathologie et migration, Paris, PUF. ...
Zeitschrift Fur Psychosomatische Medizin Und Psychotherapie, Feb 1, 2008
In accordance with Freud's hypoth... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 2008
In accordance with Freud's hypoth... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
This particular project had as its aim the development of a line of research which combined affec... more This particular project had as its aim the development of a line of research which combined affects with language and psychotherapy outcome. One of the problems with which we were confronted at that time was that the affects that appear on the face most of the time do not appear in the speech of the patient-- as they are often not conscious to the person displaying them. Furthermore, sometimes affects which are consciously verbalized, do not come into speech at the same time they appear on the face. Therefore, traditional text analysis was not feasible as the research method of choice. We then arrived at the idea of working with metaphors, following the hypothesis that metaphors metabolize the entrance of affects into language before affects are consciously verbalized as such. We also compared the apparition of affects and metaphors in time, with the idea of observing whether these affect choreographies diminished when verbalization took place; that is, whether affect migrated into speech.
Geist, Gehirn, Verhalten: Sigmund Freud …, 2008
Metaphors in Psychotherapy: From Affects to Mental Representations Myria Fabregat and Rainer Krau... more Metaphors in Psychotherapy: From Affects to Mental Representations Myria Fabregat and Rainer Krause This paper will examine and elucidate the main results from the research we car-ried out on language and affects. Over the following years we undertook several collaborative ...
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 2008
In accordance with Freud&... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 2008
In accordance with Freud&... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
Dialogue, 2009
... dans la famille (comme la mort non élaborée d'un bébé), dans certaines adoptions et ... more ... dans la famille (comme la mort non élaborée d'un bébé), dans certaines adoptions et situations d'infertilité. ... faire des alliances et de trouver des remèdes parce qu'elles ne sont pas porteuses des rancunes masculines. ... Parents en exil : psychopathologie et migration, Paris, PUF. ...
Zeitschrift Fur Psychosomatische Medizin Und Psychotherapie, Feb 1, 2008
In accordance with Freud's hypoth... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 2008
In accordance with Freud's hypoth... more In accordance with Freud's hypothesis about the nature of primary process thinking we analysed metaphors as possible tools for the integration of unconscious affective und cognitive representational processes which, besides being complementary to affective interactive dyadic behaviour, may be of curative value. Using videotapes of 10 fifteen-hour short-term therapies by very experienced therapists treating an unselected group of patients, facial affect and metaphoric language of the therapist and the patient as well as the temporal distance between the two was recorded. The density of metaphors was not significantly correlated with symptom reduction but with treatment satisfaction. However, symptom reduction correlated significantly with the frequency of interactive metaphors used by both the therapist and the patient. It could be shown that there is an optimal time window between facial affect and metaphor production beyond the here and now, but not as a long term memory.
This particular project had as its aim the development of a line of research which combined affec... more This particular project had as its aim the development of a line of research which combined affects with language and psychotherapy outcome. One of the problems with which we were confronted at that time was that the affects that appear on the face most of the time do not appear in the speech of the patient-- as they are often not conscious to the person displaying them. Furthermore, sometimes affects which are consciously verbalized, do not come into speech at the same time they appear on the face. Therefore, traditional text analysis was not feasible as the research method of choice. We then arrived at the idea of working with metaphors, following the hypothesis that metaphors metabolize the entrance of affects into language before affects are consciously verbalized as such. We also compared the apparition of affects and metaphors in time, with the idea of observing whether these affect choreographies diminished when verbalization took place; that is, whether affect migrated into speech.