Revisiting Kopp's Metaphor-Transformation Protocol: Integrating Bodily Sensation and Self-Responsibility

This article offers an extension to Richard Kopp's metaphor-transformation protocol, incorporating bodily sensations and emphasizing agency and self-responsibility. It presents a case study to demonstrate the extended protocol. Incorporating bodily sensations supports the holistic nature of metaphor work and Adlerian theory. The therapist's invitation to self-responsibility encourages the individual's social interest and self-efficacy. The author proposes that incorporating bodily sensations enables creativity, thus enhancing the potential experience of change, and that engaging with creativity and self-responsibility through metaphor transformation is encouraging. This article honors Kopp's work, contributes to metaphor therapy literature, and emphasizes the intersection of mind and body work in therapy.