The transform of psychotherapy pattern has always been chaperoned by the change of psychological metaphor.

From the classics psychoanalytic to postmodernism psychotherapy,every psychotherapy pattern contains a unique psychological metaphor.

The development of psychology has always been chaperoned by the change of psychological metaphor, and at the back of each psychology theory there is a special psychological metaphor which props up the common comprehension of research realm.

The contemporary theory of metaphor in cognitive linguistics argued that metaphor, in a wider sense, is the basis of language and thought and it forms the conceptual system.

Chinese nominal metaphor comprehension method based on cooperation mechanism;

The Roles of Enhancement and Inhibition in Chinese Metaphor Comprehension;

There is much controversy about the roles of topics and vehicles in the process of metaphor comprehension.

The understanding of metaphor is an important part of metaphorical theories, and the operation system and effects are achieved and embodied in the process of metaphor understanding.

Traditionaltheories of metaphor ( the comparison theory , the interaction theory , the pragmatic theory) failedto touch the essence of metaphor understanding.

Relevance theory explains metaphor in a dynamic context from the human cognitive perspective,which offers a new way to view metaphor and reveals the nature of metaphor understanding.