| Description |
222 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Writing with the Voice of the Child: Fictional Autobiography and Personal Development -- 2. The Self as Source: Creative Writing Generated from Personal Reflection -- 3. The Web of Words: Collaborative Writing and Mental Health -- 4. 'Men Wearing Pyjamas': Using Creative Writing with People with Learning Disabilities -- 5. Writing or Pills? Therapeutic Writing in Primary Health Care -- 6. Final Fictions? Creative Writing and Terminally Ill People -- 7. A Matter of the Life and Death of the Mind: Creative Writing and Dementia Sufferers -- 8. The Creative Word and the Created Life: The Cultural Context for Deep Autobiography -- 9. Thinking about Language as a Way through the World: Some Sources for a Model -- 10. Writing, the Self and the Social Process -- 11. The Empty Word and the Full Word: The Emergence of Truth in Writing -- 12. Transformative Reading: Reconfigurations of the Self between Experience and the Text -- 13. Autobiography and the Psychotherapeutic Process -- 14. Towards a Writing Therapy? Implications of Existing Practice and Theory -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index. |
| Summary |
In this ground-breaking work the rapidly-developing field of the therapeutic use of creative writing is explored on two levels. Intended as an introduction to the field it will interest health professionals and those working in the social services. |
| Subject |
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
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Self-actualization (Psychology)
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Narrative therapy.
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Narrative therapy. (OCoLC)fst01033063
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Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
(OCoLC)fst00882507
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Self-actualization (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01111481
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Psychotherapy -- methods.
(DNLM)D011613Q000379
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Writing. (DNLM)D014956
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Self Psychology. (DNLM)D019455
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Occupational Therapy. (DNLM)D009788
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| Added Author |
Hunt, Celia, editor.
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Sampson, Fiona, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Self on the page. London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Kingsley, 1998 (OCoLC)605451482 |
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Online version: Self on the page. London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Kingsley, 1998 (OCoLC)605451526 |
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Online version: Self on the page. London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Kingsley, 1998 (OCoLC)605891550 |
| ISBN |
9781853024696 (hb) |
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1853024694 (hb) |
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9781853024702 (pb) |
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1853024708 (pb) |
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