ISBN:

• 9780814158609
• 0814158609

Description: xvi, 476 pages ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• 1. Finding our way in
• Whose voice is it anyway? / Anne Ruggles Gere
• Language and literature as "equipment for living" : revision as a life skill / Tilly Warnock
• Suture, stigma, and the pages that heal / Charles M. Anderson with Karen Holt and Patty McGady
• 2. Traditions and extensions
• Writing as healing and the rhetorical tradition : sorting out Plato, postmodernism, writing pedagogy, and post-traumatic stress disorder / T.R. Johnson
• A strange unaccountable something : historicizing sexual abuse essays / Michelle Payne
• From trauma to writing : a theoretical model for practical use / Marian M. MacCurdy
• Healing and the brain / Alice G. Brand
• Pathography and enabling myths : the process of healing / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
• 3. Writing and healing in the classroom
• Language, power, and consciousness : a writing experiment at the University of Toronto / Guy Allen
• Writing about suicide / Jeffrey Berman and Jonathan Schiff
• Teaching emotional literacy / Jerome Bump
• Writing through the fear to reframe experience and discover values / Regina Paxton Foehr
• 4. Writing and healing in the world
• Voices from the line : the Clothesline Project as healing text / Laura Julier
• "The more I tell my story" : writing as healing in an HIV/AIDS community / Emily Nye
• Las Madres, upstairs/downstairs : from soul maps and story circles to intertextual collaboration / Sandra Florence.

LCCN: 99048921

Control Number: 2280506

Series:

• Refiguring English studies
• Refiguring English studies.

Subjects:

• Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
• Creativity.
• Psychotherapy.
• Writing.

Other Authors:

• Anderson, Charles M.
• MacCurdy, Marian M.