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Author | : Celia Hunt |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781853027475 |
'It was the author's own experience of fictional autobiography that led Celia Hunt serendipiditously to appreciate that such writing could be therapeutic. She noticed, for example, and this was subsequently echoed in many of her students' experiences, a beneficial psychological change - and increased inner freedom, greater psychic flexability (perhaps the key to creativity and psychological health), a stronger sense of personal identity. This book tells us about the hows and whys of such therapeutic change.' - AutoBiographyJournal.com 'A critical examination of the therapeutic possibilities of autobiographical fiction that draws on perspectives from both psychoanalytic and literary studies.' - The Journal Of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing brings together theory and practice from psychoanalysis, literary and cultural studies and the growing field of creative writing studies. It highlights the importance of autobiographical writing not only as an opening into fiction writing, but also as a powerful therapeutic tool. Celia Hunt discusses how autobiographical fiction can be used in therapeutic work by art therapists, psychotherapists and creative writing tutors, as well as in personal development by writers of any kind. She draws up guidelines for a successful course on autobiography and creative writing, and presents case studies and practical ideas for writing about the self. She shows how writing autobiographical fiction can help people to explore significant events and relationships in their lives. Finding a writing voice in this way clarifies and strengthens the writer's sense of identity, leading to a fuller realisation of his or her potential in life.
Author | : celia hunt |
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Release | : 2000 |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Gillie Bolton |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1846422272 |
Writing is a means of making sense of experience, and of arriving at a deeper understanding of the self. The use of creative writing therapeutically can complement verbal discussions, and offers a cost- and time-effective way of extending support to depressed or psychologically distressed patients. Suitable both for health-care professionals who wish to implement therapeutic writing with their patients, and for those wishing to start writing creatively in order to help themselves, The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing provides practical, well tried and tested suggestions for beginning to write and for developing writing further. It includes ideas for writing individually and for directing groups, and explores journal writing, poetry, fiction, autobiography and writing out trauma, with established writers and those who have taken up writing for private enjoyment.
Author | : Celia Hunt |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781853024702 |
This book examines the potential of creative writing as a therapeutic tool. Illustrating a wide range of approaches, the contributors provide an introduction to thinking about creative writing in a personal development context with suggestions for further reading, and look at the potential evolution of therapeutic creative writing in the future.
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Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 20?? |
Genre | : Autobiography |
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Author | : Diane P. Freedman |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780822332138 |
DIVAn anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research./div
Author | : Lucia Boldrini |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 331955414X |
This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Author | : Catherine Hobbs |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Longman |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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With its special cultural and historical approach to writing an autobiography, The Elements of the Autobiography and Life Narratives teaches students about the genre and helps them write their own life stories. Elements of the Autobiography and Life Narratives helps readers think about how their lives--as well as the texts that they write about them--are socially constructed. It presents the autobiography as a means of self-expression, personal and social growth, and development of insight, and shows how writing an autobiography occurs within social and cultural contexts and constraints.
Author | : Graeme Harper |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 184769019X |
Here creative writers who are also university teachers monitor their contribution to this popular discipline in essays that indicate how far it has come in the USA, the UK and Australia.