constructing and healing the self through writing /
First Statement of Responsibility
Judith Harris.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Albany :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
State University of New York Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-289) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Signifying Pain applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such painful life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and even genocide. Probing deep into the bedrock of literary imagination, Judith Harris traces the odyssey of a diverse group of writers - John Keats, Derek Walcott, Jane Kenyon, Michael S. Harper, Robert Lowell, and Ai, as well as student writers - who have used their writing to work through and past such personal traumas. Drawing on her own experience as a poet and teacher, Harris shows how the process can be long and arduous, but that when exercised within the spirit of one's own personal compassion, the results can be limitless. Signifying Pain will be of interest not only to teachers of creative and therapeutic writing, but also to those with a critical interest in autobiographical or confessional writing more generally."--Jacket.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Signifying pain.
International Standard Book Number
0791456846
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Creative writing-- Therapeutic use, Congresses.
Literature.
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
Self Concept.
Stress, Psychological-- psychology.
Writing.
Creative writing-- Therapeutic use.
MEDICAL-- Allied Health Services-- Occupational Therapy.