ABSTRACT
In Chapter 22, authors Andrea Rodríguez Quiroga de Pereira, Bruno Salesio, and Adela Leibovich de Duarte present a specific exercise done after the Three-Level Model (3-LM) traditional group discussion. They conducted a thorough study of the metaphors that arise from the patient, the analyst, and the relationship between the patient and the analyst and the observation of the patient’s evolution through the operationalisation of the scenes/metaphors proposed. Metaphors were studied in relation to transferential interpretations in the process. New affects and strong feelings connected to the body emerge through metaphors, which show the intensity of the work between the patient and the analyst. It was presented as a tool that permits the development of a systematic exercise for practice. As a result of this exercise, they were able to identify the two elements selected – ourselves and significant others – as parts of the scenes to which the metaphors refer in the selected texts of Zoe’s case. Specifics about how their observation allowed authors to see transformations are explained throughout the chapter.
