Categories of psychotherapeutic discourse and their expression in the language (on the basis of the novel by I. Yalom The Schopenhauer Cure)
Abstract
Categories of psychotherapeutic discourse and their expression in the language (on the basis of the novel by I. Yalom The Schopenhauer Cure)
The article describes such categories of psychotherapeutic discourse as its participants, aims, values, specific concepts. Special attention is given to the means of the categories’ expression in the language. The authors name so called teleonomic concepts of the psychotherapeutic discourse (life – death), discourse –specific concept relationship is also in focus. It is noted that psychotherapeutic discourse is of a metaphorical nature.
Keywords: psychotherapeutic discourse, discourse participants, relationship, discourse metaphorical nature