ABSTRACT
In Chapter 28, author and editor Marina Altmann de Litvan starts by presenting a summary of the contents of Part V. Secondly, she offers a condensed account of the work on metaphors done on Zoe’s clinical material by three working parties: Comparative Clinical Methods (CCM), Specificity of Psychoanalysis, and the Three-Level Model (3-LM). Altmann de Litvan focuses here on the thorough work of these three working groups on Zoe’s clinical material. She states that in this book, metaphors were displayed in the proposal as clinical research tools. Based on the work of the different groups, she concludes that metaphors are useful to improve analysts’ understandings of a patient and a process. She states that metaphors are an important bridge between the clinic and the different analysts who have different approaches and methods to analyse the clinical material. To Altmann de Litvan, metaphors can trigger an improvement in our conceptualisation, categorisation, and understanding of the patient and the process.
