The self on the page : theory and practice of creative writing in personal development / edited by Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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