The Self on the Page
Theory and Practice of Creative Writing in Personal Development
Edited by Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson
Paperback: £22.99 / $36.95
1998, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-470-2, BIC 2: MQTC
Examining the potential of creative writing as a therapeutic tool, particularly in terms of its influence on the self and personal development, The Self on the Page is divided into two parts. In Part One representative practitioners provide an overview of current work in the field, based on their experience of conducting courses, workshops and research projects with creative writing students, and clients as diverse as people with learning disabilities or dementia and people in hospices, using various genres of creative writing from poetry to autobiography and literary fiction. This section also contains many practical suggestions for writing techniques that can be used for personal development, whether working with writers' groups or with client groups in health care and the social services.
Part Two explores the theoretical background to the therapeutic uses of creative writing, with particular reference to psychoanalysis, philosophy of language, and literary and social theory. Illustrating a wide range of different approaches, the contributors provide an introduction to thinking about creative writing in a personal development context with suggestions for further reading, and look at the potential evolution of therapeutic creative writing in the future.
Academics with an interest in textual practice, language and cultural theory; practitioners and theorists of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis; arts therapists and their educators; arts providers.
By the same authors
Author information
Subject areas
Keywords
People who bought this, also bought
Writing Well: Creative Writing and Mental Health
Deborah Philips, Liz Linington and Debra Penman
Creative Writing in Health and Social Care
Edited by Fiona Sampson
Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities
Edited by Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson
