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Writing to Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma & Emotional Upheaval
For the first time, a leading authority on expressive emotions therapy (EET) translates these powerful techniques for emotional healing into a book accessible to general readers. Through guided journal writing exercises, this book helps readers translate their traumatic, emotionally disturbing experiences into powerful writing that is clinically proven to promote recovery....more
Hardcover, 164 pages
Published
May 1st 2004
by New Harbinger Publications
(first published January 1st 2004)
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Jul 14, 2008
Satia
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trauma victims, abuse victims, journal writers
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I found out about Prof Pennebaker’s research while I was busy with my thesis and in particular this quote by D N Perkins: “... The fact that human beings involve themselves in inventing something as ‘impractical’ as poems seems to follow from our status as sapient beings who communicate and can represent boundaries to ourselves ... Although such an account may explain pragmatic invention, it falls short of explicating ‘impractical’ inventive activities like poetry writing. Why bother with such s...more
This book helped me get through some tough times growing up and I recommend it to anyone who has dealt with trauma or depression. It is very interesting -- explaining the biological and psychological effects of writing -- and it takes you through the steps of beginning to express yourself through writing. After reading this book and participating in the creative writing exercises, it turns out that paper and pen were the best healers I could have.
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