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Author: Geri Giebel Chavis
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1849058326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis accessible book explores the therapeutic possibilities of poetry and stories, providing techniques for facilitating personally relevant and growth-enhancing sessions. The author provides ideas for writing activities that emerge from this discussion, and explains how participants can create their own poetic and narrative pieces.
Author: Geri Giebel Chavis
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0857003119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing. With the guidance of a skilled facilitator, participants can engage with their own creative expression, and with that of others, and in doing so find opportunities to voice their truth, affirm their strengths, and find new ways of coping with challenges. This book explores the therapeutic possibilities of poetry and stories in turn, describing how to select appropriate works for discussion, and providing techniques for facilitating personally-relevent and growth-enhancing sessions. The author provides ideas and suggestions for personal writing activities that emerge from or intertwine with this discussion, and explains how participants can create their own poetic and narrative pieces using non-literary stimuli, such as music, photographs, paintings, objects, and physical movement. A useful appendix contains titles of individual poems, stories, and literary anthologies that the author has found particularly beneficial in her work, as well as useful further resources and contact details for readers who would like to train to be registered or certified poetry therapists or facilitators. Combining theory with innovative ideas for practical, experiential exercises, this book is a valuable tool for creative arts therapy students and practitioners, mental health and medical professionals, and anyone else interested in the healing possibilities of creative expression.
Author: Nicholas Mazza
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1317606981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, poetry therapy has been formally recognized as a valuable form of treatment, and it has been proven effective worldwide with a diverse group of clients. The second edition of Poetry Therapy, written by a pioneer and leader in the field, updates the only integrated poetry therapy practice model with a host of contemporary issues, including the use of social media and slam/performance poetry. It’s a truly invaluable resource for any serious practitioner, educator, or researcher interested in poetry therapy, bibliotherapy, writing, and healing, or the broader area of creative/expressive arts therapies.
Author: Morris R. Morrison
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donika Kelly
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 155597953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought myself body enough for two, for we. Found comfort in never being lonely. What burst from my back, from my bones, what lived along the ridge from crown to crown, from mane to forked tongue beneath the skin. What clamor we made in the birthing. What hiss and rumble at the splitting, at the horns and beard, at the glottal bleat. What bridges our back. What strong neck, what bright eye. What menagerie are we. What we've made of ourselves. --from "Love Poem: Chimera" Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." Lurking in the middle of this powerful and multifaceted collection is a wrenching sequence that wonders just who or what is the real monster inside this life of survival and reflection. Selected and with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Bestiary questions what makes us human, what makes us whole.
Author: Richard M. Berlin
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Published: 2008-04-30
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0801895294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of 16 essays, poets discuss psychiatric treatment and their work. Poets on Prozac shatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse. The sixteen essays collected here address many provocative questions: Does emotional distress inspire great work? Is artistry enhanced or diminished by mental illness? What effect does substance abuse have on esthetic vision? Do psychoactive medications impinge on ingenuity? Can treatment enhance inherent talents, or does relieving emotional pain shut off the creative process? Featuring examples of each contributor’s poetry before, during, and after treatment, this original and thoughtful collection finally puts to rest the idea that a tortured soul is one’s finest muse. Honorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Psychology. “A fascinating collection of 16 essays, as insightful as they are compulsively readable. Each is honest and sharply written, covering a range of issues (depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosis, substance abuse or, in acutely deadpan Andrew Hudgins’s case, “tics, twitches, allergies, tooth-grinding, acid reflux, migraines . . . and shingles”) along with treatment methods, incorporating personal anecdotes and excerpts from poems and journals. . . . Anyone affected by mental illness or intrigued by the question of its role in the arts should find this volume absorbing.” —Publishers Weekly “Berlin has done a marvelous job of showing us how ordinary poets are; the selected poets have shown us that mental illness shares with other experiences a capacity to reveal our humanity.” —Metapsychology
Author: Jack J. Leedy
Publisher: J.P. Lippincott
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Fox
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997-10-13
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0874778824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowerful and exciting, Poetic Medicine illustrates the unique role that poem-making can have in addressing the situations that lead us to renewal in our lives. John Fox's book is designed for readers wanting to tap their creative energy in order to make a difference in the world, including educators, therapists, parents and their children, writers, couples, and the infirm. As the author demonstrates, we all possess the ability to write. This gift enables us to access unlimited spiritual resources that restore our genuine voices and meaning in our lives, while healing and creatively satisfying us. Discussed are numerous stories of people from the author's workshops who exemplify how poetry has aided them I becoming more whole. Parents understand how to use poetry to foster their relationships with their children, recognizing magical bonds that they never knew existed; persons who are ill learn how to come to terms with their diseases; and those who feel helpless in the surrounding world discover the freedom to act and affect real change. With the poetic tools, instruction, and accounts the author supplies in Poetic Medicine, readers can start now to make their own poems while addressing, acknowledging, accepting, and taking charge of their lives.
Author: Tina Sederholm
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-07
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781913958015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTina Sederholm is a pathfinder, scouting out the best ways to thrive in our confusing and overwrought world. Fuelled by a passionate belief in the healing power of art, and the contention that no person or day is exempt from an interesting story, she uses he finely honed wit to confront complex questions such as: 'How do you live a meaningful life?' 'What sort of God is worth believing in?' 'How do you best fold your socks?' The result is an infectious rebel shout-out to finding joy even in difficult circumstances, hope and solace for those traversing any transition in their life.
Author: George Kaliaden
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2017-02-27
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1524520667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do our words acquire healing powers? How do words make changes in each others brains? How do special uses of words, poetic or therapeutic, modify our thoughts, alter our feelings and transform our lives? This book introduces helping professionals to the practice of poetry therapy, highlighting the prophetic role of poets and healing professionals in our everyday life.
