The self on the page : theory and practice of creative writing in personal development /
The self on the page : theory and practice of creative writing in personal development /
edited by Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson.
- 222 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Writing with the Voice of the Child: Fictional Autobiography and Personal Development -- The Self as Source: Creative Writing Generated from Personal Reflection -- The Web of Words: Collaborative Writing and Mental Health -- 'Men Wearing Pyjamas': Using Creative Writing with People with Learning Disabilities -- Writing or Pills? Therapeutic Writing in Primary Health Care -- Final Fictions? Creative Writing and Terminally Ill People -- A Matter of the Life and Death of the Mind: Creative Writing and Dementia Sufferers -- The Creative Word and the Created Life: The Cultural Context for Deep Autobiography -- Thinking about Language as a Way through the World: Some Sources for a Model -- Writing, the Self and the Social Process -- The Empty Word and the Full Word: The Emergence of Truth in Writing -- Transformative Reading: Reconfigurations of the Self between Experience and the Text -- Autobiography and the Psychotherapeutic Process -- Towards a Writing Therapy? Implications of Existing Practice and Theory -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
1853024708 9781853024702 1853024694 9781853024696
Creative writing--Therapeutic use
Self-actualization (Psychology)
615.8516
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Writing with the Voice of the Child: Fictional Autobiography and Personal Development -- The Self as Source: Creative Writing Generated from Personal Reflection -- The Web of Words: Collaborative Writing and Mental Health -- 'Men Wearing Pyjamas': Using Creative Writing with People with Learning Disabilities -- Writing or Pills? Therapeutic Writing in Primary Health Care -- Final Fictions? Creative Writing and Terminally Ill People -- A Matter of the Life and Death of the Mind: Creative Writing and Dementia Sufferers -- The Creative Word and the Created Life: The Cultural Context for Deep Autobiography -- Thinking about Language as a Way through the World: Some Sources for a Model -- Writing, the Self and the Social Process -- The Empty Word and the Full Word: The Emergence of Truth in Writing -- Transformative Reading: Reconfigurations of the Self between Experience and the Text -- Autobiography and the Psychotherapeutic Process -- Towards a Writing Therapy? Implications of Existing Practice and Theory -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
1853024708 9781853024702 1853024694 9781853024696
Creative writing--Therapeutic use
Self-actualization (Psychology)
615.8516