The therapeutic potential of creative writing : writing myself / Gillie Bolton ; foreword by Sir Kenneth Calman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolton, Gillie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Therapeutic use.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

COVER

The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Foreword by Sir Kenneth Calman

1. Introduction

2. Therapeutic Writing - How and Why: The Healing Pen

3. Keeping a Journal: 'The Diamonds of the Dustheap'

4. Writing Openers: Unbuttoning

Opening the Box

5. Images: How to Find, Create and Use Them - Echoes

6. Dreams Which Put Us in Touch with Ourselves: 'The Royal Road'

7. The Power of Poetry, Autobiography and Fiction: 'Something Hatches'

8. Writing to Help You Take Control of Your Own Life: 'This is My Decision!'

9. Writing and Groups: Laugh and Cry with Each Other

10. Writing Out Trauma: A Bobble Hat, a Pair of Jeans and Grandad

11. Writing at the Doctor's, the Hospital, the Hospice: Writing on Prescription

12. Writing in Prison, the Old People's Home: 'Reach for the Stars'

13. Approaches to Therapeutic Writing: 'But Who Are You?'

14. Conclusions: Thought Made Flesh

APPENDIX: USEFUL CONTACT ADDRESSES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SUBJECT INDEX

AUTHOR INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610551354

9781280551352

1280551356

9781846422270

1846422272

9781417563777

141756377X

OCLC:

50650811