Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities

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Victoria Field, Gillie Bolton, Kate Thompson
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006 M08 15 - 256 páginas

The use of creative writing as a route to personal development is a powerful therapeutic tool - a fact that is recognized in the growing numbers of workshops and writing groups within professional contexts, including clinical, health and criminal justice settings.

Writing Works is a guide for writers or therapists working with groups or individuals and is full of practical advice on everything from the equipment needed to run a session to ideas for themes, all backed up by the theory that underpins the methods explained. Experienced practitioners in the field contribute detailed illuminating accounts of organizing writing workshops for a wide range of different clients, together with examples of their outcomes.

This book will be an invaluable start-up reference for arts therapists and professionals working across the health, social care and caring professions, and one that will be referred to again and again.

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Introduction
13
Writing from Without
33
Writing from Within
139
APPENDIX 1 MAP OF THE BOOK
236
APPENDIX 2 CLASSIC EXERCISES
239
APPENDIX 3 USEFUL RESOURCES
240
REFERENCES
242
CONTRIBUTORS
245
SUBJECT INDEX
252
AUTHOR INDEX
255
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Página 116 - ... America's flourishing breed of psychological counselors. He makes an important clarification: "I don't think I would like to adjust to a life without imagination or accomplishment, and I don't believe my students wanted to either. It is in that sense, perhaps, that it can best be understood why it is better to teach poetry writing as an art than to teach it — well, not really teach it but use it — as some form of distracting or consoling therapy.‎
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Página 126 - Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo stalk from a bamboo stalk." What he meant was that the poet should detach his mind from self. . . and enter into the object, sharing its delicate life and its feelings. Whereupon a poem forms of itself. Description of the object is not enough: unless a poem contains feelings which have come from the object, the object and the poet's self will be separate things.‎
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Página 134 - Whether ornothethoughtoutthe matter, the fact is that [Hopkins] chose one of the most disciplined verse forms because it best held his explosive emotions in check. These poems shock doubly because of the contrast between the decorum of the sonnet form and the dark energy pulsing against its restraints.‎
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Página 9 - What's writing really about? It's trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life - to attack it and attack it and get it under control'.‎
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Página 136 - There is an epigrammatic terseness in the ghazal, but with immense lyricism, evocation, sorrow, heartbreak, wit. What defines the ghazal is a constant longing.‎
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Acerca del autor (2006)

Gillie Bolton has worked in reflective and therapeutic writing for personal and professional development for twenty-five years, and has written and edited five books, one of which is now in its third edition. A grandmother of three, she lives in Bloomsbury, London, and Hope Valley, Derbyshire.

Kate Thompson is a BACP senior accredited counsellor and supervisor and a journal therapist. After gaining a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University and therapeutic training, she developed a method of combining the two. She is a faculty member of the Center for Journal Therapy and Institute for Therapeutic Writing and lives in Colorado, USA.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloWriting Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities
Writing for Therapy or Personal Development
EditoresVictoria Field, Gillie Bolton, Kate Thompson
ColaboradorBlake Morrison
EditorJessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006
ISBN1846425492, 9781846425493
Largo256 páginas
  
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