| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- Therapeutic Writing: How and Why The Healing Pen -- Keeping a Journal 'The Diamonds of the Dustheap' -- Writing Openers Unbuttoning -- Opening the Box -- Images: How to Find, Create and Use Them Echoes -- Dreams Which Put Us in Touch with Ourselves 'The Royal Road' -- The Power of Poetry, Autobiography and Fiction 'Something Hatches' -- Writing to Help You Take Control of Your Own Life 'This is My Decision! ' -- Writing and Groups Laugh and Cry with Each Other -- Writing Out Trauma A Bobble Hat, a Pair of Jeans and Grandad |
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Writing at the Doctor's, the Hospital, the Hospice Writing on Prescription -- Writing in Prison, the Old People's Home 'Reach for the Stars' -- Approaches to Therapeutic Writing 'But Who Are Yo u?' -- Conclusions Thought Made Flesh -- Useful Contact Addresses -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index |
| Summary |
Writing is a means of making sense of experience, and of arriving at a deeper understanding of the self. The use of creative writing therapeutically can complement verbal discussions, and offers a cost- and time-effective way of extending support to depressed or psychologically distressed patients. Suitable both for health-care professionals who wish to implement therapeutic writing with their patients, and for those wishing to start writing creatively in order to help themselves, The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing provides practical, well tried and tested suggestions for beginning to write and for developing writing further. It includes ideas for writing individually and for directing groups, and explores journal writing, poetry, fiction, autobiography and writing out trauma, with established writers and those who have taken up writing for private enjoyment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use
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Writing.
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Creative ability.
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Self-care, Health.
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Writing
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Creativity
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Psychotherapy -- methods
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Self Care
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writing (processes)
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creativity.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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Writing
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Self-care, Health
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Creative ability
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Creative writing -- Therapeutic use
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99192236 |
| ISBN |
9781853025990 |
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1853025992 |
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141756377X |
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9781417563777 |
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1280551356 |
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9781280551352 |
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9786610551354 |
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6610551359 |
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1846422272 |
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9781846422270 |
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