Compare themselves to budding and cocoons
Pointing out tangible signs of improvement wilt help to keep the individual encouraged, but reassurance, even with those with low self-sufficient, is not psychotherapy. When sedate businessmen wax poetic and compare themselves to budding flowers and cocoons, we may be sure that they have improved psychologically. They are forced to use these terms, and they feel embarrassed as they do so, because their vocabularies lack words for their new gut and feeling states. (by Salter)
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What is the connotation of the words in blue? Does the author say the sedate businessmen are money oriented, and they lack imagines, emotion?
Why does the author use "budding flowers and cocoons'?
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iclearwater Does the author say the sedate businessmen are money oriented, and they lack imagines, emotion? Not at all. The author is describing the visible progress of therapy in people.
- iclearwater Does the author say the sedate businessmen are money oriented, and they lack imagines, emotion?
- Not at all.
- The author is describing the visible progress of therapy in people.
- He gives an example.
- We think of "sedate businessmen" having unemotional, serious, and matter-of-fact personalities.
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iclearwaterDoes the author say the sedate businessmen are money oriented, and they lack imagines, emotion?
Not at all.
The author is describing the visible progress of therapy in people. He gives an example. We think of "sedate businessmen" having unemotional, serious, and matter-of-fact personalities. But when they are inspired to change (as a res
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