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The self on the page : theory and practice of creative writing in personal development

Title
The self on the page : theory and practice of creative writing in personal development / edited by Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson.
Publication
  • London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998.
  • ©1998

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Additional Authors
  • Hunt, Celia
  • Sampson, Fiona
Description
222 pages; 24 cm
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
  • Self-actualization (Psychology)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Writing
  • Self psychology
  • Occupational therapy
  • Psychotherapy > methods
  • Writing
  • Self Psychology
  • Occupational Therapy
  • writing (processes)
  • occupational therapy
  • Self psychology
  • Occupational therapy
  • Narrative therapy
  • Creative writing > Therapeutic use
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references 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.
ISBN
  • 9781853024696
  • 1853024694
  • 9781853024702
  • 1853024708
LCCN
98180611
OCLC
  • ocm39696114
  • 39696114
  • SCSB-825861
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library