Writing for Wellbeing : Theory, Research, and Practice

著者名：Den Elzen, Katrin (EDT)/Lengelle, Reinekke (EDT)

Routledge（2023/07/07発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032163161
• eISBN：9781000886733

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Reinekke Lengelle and Katrin Den Elzen

Chapter 1: When your Partner Dies: A Conversation about Writing and Post-Traumatic Growth in Widowhood

Katrin 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

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

Chapter 8: Narrating Grief and Loss: A Writing-For-Wellbeing Study

Katrin Den Elzen and Robert A. Neimeyer

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

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