Reading List

Research Question: Are the examples of writing being used as therapy?


Search Terms:
art
healing
healing art
therapeutics
journal
writing therapy



Works Cited

Brand, Alice Glarden. Therapy in Writing: a Psycho-educational Enterprise. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington, 1980. Print.
(The author writes about the connection between writing and emotion)

DeSalvo, Louise A. Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives. San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999. Print.
(This book is about a professor that helps people overcome trauma by writing)

Edmands, Margaret Sutton, and Denise Marcellino-Boisvert. "REFLECTIONS ON A ROSE: A STORY OF LOSS AND LONGING." Issues in Mental Health Nursing 23.2 (2002): 107-119. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 201
(How a writer reflected on his loss and turned it into writing therapy)

Khanna, Ritu. "An Article on the Act of Writing as a Therapy." Life Positive. Sept. 1996. Web. 02 Apr. 2010. .
(The writer defends and give good reasons as to why writing is a healing art)

Metzger, Deena. Writing for Your Life: a Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. Print.
(Writing your past life events helps you better understand your life and meaning of it)

MICHAEL, KIMMELMAN. "A Gifted Man Who Put His Pain on Paper." New York Times 04 Oct. 1996: 1. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010.
(The case of a man who started writing as a form of dealing with pain)

Synder, Beverly A. "Expressive art therapy techniques: Healing the soul through creativity." Journal of Humanistic Education & Development 36.2 (1997): 74. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010.
(Different types of healing arts)

Woolston, Chris. "CNN.com - Writing for Therapy Helps Erase Effects of Trauma - March 16, 2000." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. 16 Mar. 2000. Web. 02 Apr. 2010. .
(How writing helps you overcome cases of trauma)

Wright, Jeannie K. "Autoethnography and Therapy: Writing on the Move." Qualitative Inquiry 15.4 (2009): 623-640. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010.
(People are writing more and more and are being healed by it)

WRIGHT, JEANNIE K. "Dialogical journal writing as 'self-therapy': 'I matter'." Counselling & Psychotherapy Research 9.4 (2009): 234-240. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010. (ARTICLE)
(Researcher used three cases to help her answer her questions regarding the healing art)