Writing for Wellbeing -

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Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2023

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 284

Expédition : 418

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5

ISBN : 9781032163147

Résumé :

This volume is a holistic and inspiring resource for those who would use or teach Writing-for-wellbeing.

Biographie:

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.

Sommaire:

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