Metaphors, Trauma and Symptoms

6 Conclusion

6.1 Chapter introduction

Chapters 3 to 5, together, presented a mixed-method, multi-level analysis of trauma metaphors elicited by the 2019–2020 Hong Kong social unrest: various therapeutically interesting patterns were extracted and examined at the text level, individual level, and disorder/symptom level. This chapter concludes the book with a retrospective summary of the findings from the three studies, their contribution to existing knowledge of trauma and mental health metaphors, and how the studies could be complemented by upcoming research. Section 6.2 will first summarize the major findings under the two major linguistic and clinical aims (outlined earlier in Section 1.4) and elaborate on the methodological implications ...