Writing as a way of healing -- Why write? -- How writing can help us heal -- Writing as a therapeutic process -- Writing pain, writing loss -- The process/the program -- The healing power of the writing process -- Caring for ourselves as we write -- Stages of the process, stages of growth I -- Stages of the process, stages of growth II -- From woundedness to wholeness through writing -- Writing the wounded psyche -- Writing the wounded body -- From silence to testimony.
Summary:
DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process.
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