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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Jessica Kingsley, 1998Description: 222 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1853024708
  • 9781853024702
  • 1853024694
  • 9781853024696
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.8516
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.
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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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