Suggested Readings Related to Writing & Healing and the Psychology of the Writing Process Anderson, Charles M., and Marian M. MacCurdy, eds. Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000. (Marian MacCurdy’s “From Trauma to Writing: A Theoretical Model for Practical Use” and Guy Allen’s “Language, Power, and Consciousness: A Writing Experiment at the University of Toronto” make especially compelling arguments that writing about traumas or personal concerns can lead to improved writing style in general.) Bracher, Mark. The Writing Cure. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1999. Brand, Alice Glarden. The Pyschology of Writing: The Affective Experience. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1989. Brand, Alice Glarden, and Richard L. Graves, eds. Presence of Mind: Writing and the Domain beyond the Cognitive. Portsmouth, NY: Boynton/Cook, 1994. DeSalvo, Louise. Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives. Boston: Beacon, 1999. Flaherty, Alice. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Lepore, Stephen J., and Joshua M. Smyth, eds. The Writing Cure: How Expressive Writing Promotes Health and Emotional Well-Being. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Assn., 2002. Pennebaker, James. W. Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions. New York: Guilford, 1990. Rico, Gabriele Lusser. Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way Through Personal Crisis. New York: Tarcher, 1991. Rinaldi, Jacqueline. “Rhetoric and Healing.” College English 58 (1996): 820-34. Schneider. Pat. Writing Alone and with Others. New York: Oxford UP, 2003. Zimmerman, Susan. Writing to Heal the Soul: Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002. |
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