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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

by Louise Desalvo

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ISBN13: 9780807072431
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Highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo offers the first detailed writing program designed for healing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to overcome the emotional and physical wounds that arn an inevitable part of life. She culls journals, diaries, letters, and works of dozens of famouns writers and students of the craft to illustrate how people "change physically and psychologically when they work on projects that grow from a deep, authentic place." With insight and with, she illuminates how the writing process has transformed authors such as Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, Audre Lorde, and Isabel Allende. WRITING AS A WAY OF HEALING gives valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inpsire both experienced and beginning writers.

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In the first detailed writing program designed specifically for healing, DeSalvo shows how writing can overcome physical and emotional wounds. She culls journals, diaries, letters, and works of dozens of famous writers and students to illustrate how writing has helped people.

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Louise DeSalvo, author of Vertigo: A Memoir and Virginia Woolf: Sexual Abuse in Her Life and Work, is professor of English at Hunter College.

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ISBN:
9780807072431
Subtitle:
How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
Author:
DeSalvo, Louise A.
Author:
DeSalvo, Louise
Author:
DeSalvo, Louise A.
Publisher:
Beacon Press (MA)
Location:
Boston :
Subject:
Journal Writing
Subject:
Authorship
Subject:
Healing
Subject:
Diaries
Subject:
General Self-Help
Subject:
Diaries -- Authorship.
Subject:
Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
145
Publication Date:
March 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
8.32x5.58x.68 in. .69 lbs.

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