Writing for Wellbeing
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-16316-1 (ISBN)
Writing can support our wellbeing even under the most difficult life circumstances, helping us to adapt to significant change, make sense of loss, improve our physical and emotional resilience, and foster personal growth. Numerous studies of Expressive Writing have confirmed this, and there are other established methodologies for practice. However, to date, few accounts have offered detailed descriptions showing how and why putting pen to paper can be so beneficial. This book delves deeply into the landscape of Writing-for-wellbeing and demonstrates the transformative power of writing in a wide range of contexts. Topics include personal trauma narratives within the Humanities; a participatory Writing-for-wellbeing study that demonstrates the effectiveness of writing in the context of grief and loss; surprise as the hidden mainspring of poetry's therapeutic potency; the empowerment and healing potential offered by Black women’s blogs; playwriting positioning LGBTQIA+ identities as positive through stories of belonging; how writing workshops have helped newly literate Indigenous adults and other participants in the Australian outback; and how the smuggled writings of Behrouz Boochani have enabled global witnessing of the stories of refugees held in offshore detention. This resource sets out the theory and research at the foundation of Writing-for-wellbeing in close relation to full and engaging accounts of practice. It aims to make the topic accessible and affirms its place as an effective reconstructive practice alongside other expressive arts therapies, providing a holistic and inspiring resource for anyone wishing to practice, teach, or research Writing-for-wellbeing.
Katrin Den Elzen, PhD, is a research associate in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, Australia and a Writing-for-wellbeing lecturer for graduate students in expressive art therapies, Murdoch University, Perth. She works as a grief counselor and Writing-for-wellbeing facilitator. Reinekke Lengelle, PhD, is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University, Canada and a researcher at The Hague University. Her book Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience won the Best Book Award for Ethnography in 2021 and the Qualitative Inquiry Book Award in 2022.
Introduction Reinekke Lengelle and Katrin Den Elzen
Part I: Voicing the Self
Chapter 1: When your Partner Dies: A Conversation about Writing and Post-Traumatic Growth in WidowhoodKatrin Den Elzen & Reinekke Lengelle
Chapter 2: Poetry and Connection: Encounter, Surprise, and Dialogue Reinekke Lengelle, Jon Sayers, & Geri Giebel Chavis
Chapter 3: "The Write Road" to Self-Discovery, Recovery, and Growth Stephanie Dale
Part II: The Pedagogy of Personal Trauma Narrative in Higher Education
Chapter 4: Managing Life Writing and Trauma: A Reflection Sue Joseph
Chapter 5: The Self as Chambered Nautilus: Discovering the Healing Power of Writing as a Graduate Student Jennifer Bertrand
Chapter 6: Writing as an Antidepressant in a Pandemic Jeffrey Berman
Chapter 7: Teaching Therapeutic Writing in a Higher Education Context Claire Williamson
Part III: Particapatory Research
Chapter 8: Narrating Grief and Loss: A Writing-For-Wellbeing Study Katrin Den Elzen and Robert A. Neimeyer
Part IV: Human Rights: Preserving Dignity and Writing-As-Resistance
Chapter 9: Life Writing as Resistance: Human Rights Defender Behrouz Boochani and Australia’s Offshore Detention Regime Rahel Den Elzen and Adrienne Munro
Chapter 10: A Black Woman’s Blog Posts: Writing for Personal and Social Empowerment and Healing Menah Pratt
Chapter 11: Creative Writing, Reading and Queer Belonging: Gender Insubordination in the American Deep South Dallas Baker
Part V: Voicing Identity
Chapter 12: Doctors Hold Untold Stories too: Writing the Self in Medicine and Health as an Act of Self-Care Anne Taylor
Chapter 13: Memoir and Reader Perception: The Reader-Author Relationship Katrin Den Elzen
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-16316-X / 103216316X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-16316-1 / 9781032163161 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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