Celia Hunt

Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Celia Hunt discusses how autobiographical fiction can be used in therapeutic work by art therapists, psychotherapists and creative writing tutors, as well as in personal development by writers of any kind. She draws up guidelines for a successful course on creative writing, and presents case studies and practical ideas for writing about the self.

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Produktdetails

• Arts Therapies
• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781853027475
• ISBN-10: 1853027472
• Artikelnr.: 22311736

Autorenporträt

Celia Hunt is Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Sussex Centre for Continuing Education, with special responsibility for creative writing. She has established the certificate in creative writing and the postgraduate diploma in creative writing and personal development at the Centre. She is also associate fellow at the university's Institute of Education where she teaches the creative writing component of the MA in Creative Writing, the Arts and Education. She is a founder member and chair of LAPIDUS, the Association for the Literary Arts in Personal Development. Her main research interests are in the relationship between fiction writing, autobiography and the self, on which she has published a number of articles. She is co-editor (with Fiona Sampson) of The Self on the Page, also published by Jessica Kingsley.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Finding a Writing Voice. 1. The notion of `writing voice'. 2. My
creative writing course - `Autobiography and the imagination'. 3.
Therapeutic dimensions of finding a writing voice. 4. The dual role of the
creative writing course. Part II: Fictionalising Ourselves 5. Writing and
self-exposure. 6. Using oneself as a first person narrator - Sarah's story.
7. Karen Horney's theory of inner conflicts. 8. Sarah's story from the
Horneyan point of view. 9. Using oneself as a fictional character - Jane's
story. 10. Problems of shelving the critical faculty: A Horneyan
understanding. 11. Therapeutic dimensions of fictionalising ourselves. Part
III: Fictionalising Significant People in Our Lives. 12. The voices of
others in our personal narratives. 13. Finding a voice for our parents and
siblings. - Jennifer's story. 14. Therapeutic dimensions of the `dual
voice'. 15. Finding a form for a fragmented identity - Jessica's story. 16.
Becoming authors of our personal narratives. 17. Fictional autobiography
and narrative therapy. Part IV: Fictional Autobiography in Self-therapy and
Psychotherapy. 18. Fictions of the self in autobiography and psychotherapy.
19. The possibilities of a psychoanalytic autobiography. 20. The question
of transference: Writers as readers of their own texts. 21. Writing versus
speaking in therapy. 22. Fictional autobiography in self-therapy and
psychotherapy. Conclusions: Tensions between `Writing as Art' and `Writing
as Therapy'? Appendix: Reflections on the Research. References. Index.