Research Catalog

Title

Poetry therapy : the use of poetry in the treatment of emotional disorders / edited by Jack J. Leedy.

Publication

• Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.B. Lippincott Company, [1969].
• ©1969.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leedy, Jack J., 1921-

Description

288 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Poetry > Therapeutic use
• Bibliotherapy
• Mental illness > Treatment
• Poetry
• Bibliotherapy
• Mental Disorders > therapy
• Poetry as Topic
• bibliotherapy
• poetry
• Poetry
• Mental illness > Treatment
• Poetry > Therapeutic use
• Versdichtung
• Psychotherapie
• Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Foreword: Ne t'es-tu fais mal, mon enfant? / Theodor Reik -- Preface: The vacuum / Lewis R. Wolberg -- Introduction: The healing power of poetry / Jack J. Leedy -- Treatment of a psychotic patient by poetry therapy / Robert E. Jones -- Poetry therapy with hospitalized schizophrenics / Kenneth F. Edgar, Richard Hazley, Herbert I. Levit -- Poetry therapy for psychoneurotics in a mental health center / Charles Crootof -- The universal language of rhythm / Joost A.M. Meerloo -- Principles of poetry therapy / Jack J. Leedy -- Poetry as therapy, and therapy as poetry / Milton M. Berger -- Poetry therapy with disturbed adolescents / Morris Robert Morrison -- Thoughts on the poets' corner / Kenneth Burke -- Validation of poetry therapy as a group therapy technique / Kenneth F. Edgar, Richard Hazley -- Poetry, a way to fuller awareness / W. Douglas Hitchings -- The psalms as psychological and allegorical poems / Joseph H. Gelberman, Dorothy Kobak -- Poetry as communication in psychotherapy / Harold Greenwald -- Poetry as a therapeutic art / Rolland S. Parker -- The use of poetry in individual psychotherapy / Smiley Blanton -- Poetry therapy in a "600" school and in a counseling center / Dorothy Kobak -- Why poetry? / S. Sue Robinson, Jean K. Mowbray -- The use of poetry in a private mental hospital / Aaron Kramer -- AFTLI and/or poetry therapy / Samuel Alvin Greenberg -- The double door / Robert E. Jones -- The patient's sense of the poem: affinities and ambiguities / David V. Forrest -- A curriculum proposal for training poetry therapists / Kenneth F. Edgar, Richard Hazley -- Postscript: metamessages and self-discovery / S.I. Hayakawa -- In memoriam: Eli Greifer, 1902-1966 -- Appendix: List of poems suitable for use in poetry therapy.

ISBN

• 0397590407
• 9780397590407

LCCN

67015033

OCLC

• ocm00000175
• 175
• SCSB-274377

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library