Metafory pojęciowe opisujące proces psychoterapeutyczny w wypowiedziach użytkowników mediów społecznościowych
Conceptual Metaphors Describing the Psychotherapeutic Process in the Statements of Social Media Users

Summary/Abstract: The topic of mental health and self-development is extremely inspiring and popular. Along with the changes in worldview, people began to openly raise topics related to mental problems andshare their experience, and more and more willingly use specialist help. One of its forms is psychotherapy. As part of the cultural, media and psychotherapeutic discourse, many terms helpful in understanding it have already been created, which are worth paying attention to. They all try to bring closer the essence of the psychotherapeutic process, which is a complex and difficult to define phenomenon.Metaphorical expressions, which by referring to direct human experience help to assimilate abstract concepts, seem to be particularly worthy of attention and thorough analysis. A valuable source of linguistic data are especially social media, which have become a space of intensive information exchange. This article presents an analysis of social media users' statements about the psychotherapeutic process using conceptual metaphor theory. As a result, 27 conceptual metaphors emerged. The collected metaphors, thanks to the richness of conceptualization which is containedin a simple linguistic message, based on the bodily and life experience of a person, show a broader dimension of understanding the complex phenomenon, which is psychotherapy. Thanks to this, they can be a treasury of knowledge and inspiration not only for researchers, but also for mental health specialists or people using psychotherapy.

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