TY - GEN T1 - Signifying pain : constructing and healing the self through writing T2 - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. A1 - Harris, Judith, 1955- LA - English PP - Albany PB - State University of New York Press YR - 2003 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm56406335 AB - "Signifying Pain applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such painful life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and even genocide. Probing deep into the bedrock of literary imagination, Judith Harris traces the odyssey of a diverse group of writers - John Keats, Derek Walcott, Jane Kenyon, Michael S. Harper, Robert Lowell, and Ai, as well as student writers - who have used their writing to work through and past such personal traumas. Drawing on her own experience as a poet and teacher, Harris shows how the process can be long and arduous, but that when exercised within the spirit of one's own personal compassion, the results can be limitless. Signifying Pain will be of interest not only to teachers of creative and therapeutic writing, but also to those with a critical interest in autobiographical or confessional writing more generally."--Jacket OP - 304 CN - RC489.W75 H37 2003eb SN - 1417536039 SN - 9781417536030 SN - 0791456838 SN - 9780791456835 SN - 0791456846 SN - 9780791456842 SN - 9780791487068 SN - 0791487067 KW - Creative writing : Therapeutic use : Congresses. KW - Psychoanalytic interpretation. KW - Self-perception. KW - Writing. KW - Psychoanalytic Interpretation KW - Literature KW - Self Concept KW - Stress, Psychological : psychology KW - Writing KW - Création littéraire : Emploi en thérapeutique : Congrès. KW - Interprétation psychanalytique. KW - Littérature. KW - Perception de soi. KW - Écriture. KW - writing (processes) KW - MEDICAL : Allied Health Services : Occupational Therapy. KW - Self-perception KW - Psychoanalytic interpretation KW - Creative writing : Therapeutic use KW - Conference papers and proceedings ER -