Long-term health conditions (chronic illness) can reduce the quality of people’s daily lives and can be costly to the health service. It has been suggested that when patients write about their experiences, this can have positive effects... more
Long-term health conditions (chronic illness) can reduce the quality of people’s daily lives and can be costly to the health service. It has been suggested that when patients write about their experiences, this can have positive effects on patients’ lives and the health service. We refer to this type of writing as writing therapy. The aim of this study was to see if people with long-term health conditions benefit from writing therapy. We undertook a thorough search for scientific studies that tested writing therapy in people diagnosed with any long-term condition (LTC). We looked at whether or not writing therapy helped the individuals in the study, if the study was conducted properly, how the writing therapy might produce benefits and if it could lower health service costs. We found that most of the available evidence looked at writing done by individuals on their own and focused on writing about distressing events. Overall, there was very little evidence that this type of writing therapy had benefits for people with LTCs. A few studies looked at another type of writing therapy, which was done mainly in groups, was led by a leader and which we called facilitated writing. People with LTCs appeared to get some benefits from this type of writing, but much more research needs to be done to see how useful it is. Overall, studies were unclear on how writing therapy might work to produce health benefits or if it reduced health-care spending.
Στο παρόν άρθρο θα γίνει λόγος για δύο αυτοβιογραφικά κείμενα της Μαργαρίτας Καραπάνου, το μυθιστόρημα Ναι, το οποίο εκδόθηκε το 1999 από τις εκδόσεις «Ωκεανίδα», και το ημερολόγιο της που κυκλοφόρησε το 2008 υπό την τίτλο Η ζωή είναι... more
Στο παρόν άρθρο θα γίνει λόγος για δύο αυτοβιογραφικά κείμενα της Μαργαρίτας Καραπάνου, το μυθιστόρημα Ναι, το οποίο εκδόθηκε το 1999 από τις εκδόσεις «Ωκεανίδα», και το ημερολόγιο της που κυκλοφόρησε το 2008 υπό την τίτλο Η ζωή είναι αγρίως απίθανη από τις ίδιες εκδόσεις.
Στόχος μου είναι η εφαρμογή των τριών βασικών διεργασιών-τεχνικών της αφηγηματικής θεραπείας, η οποία χρησιμοποιείται στην ψυχοθεραπεία, στα λογοτεχνικά κείμενα, προκειμένου να αναδειχθεί ο εξωτερικευτικός ρόλος της γραφής και η λυτρωτική-θεραπευτική λειτουργία της αφήγησης.
For over three decades, research in health and clinical psychology has consistently indicated that expressive writing, or writing about emotionally challenging experiences, can lead to measurable health benefits. This entry brings into... more
For over three decades, research in health and clinical psychology has consistently indicated that expressive writing, or writing about emotionally challenging experiences, can lead to measurable health benefits. This entry brings into conversation the empirical literature on expressive writing paradigms and the interdisciplinary work of the health humanities.
Doris Lessing experiments with interactional and relational patterns that act similar to the analyst-analysand pattern in psychotherapy. Her persona as self-writer manipulates intrapersonal interactions among her multiple selves.... more
Doris Lessing experiments with interactional and relational patterns that act
similar to the analyst-analysand pattern in psychotherapy. Her persona as self-writer
manipulates intrapersonal interactions among her multiple selves. Similarly,
her characters involve in self-reflexive interpersonal dialogues and relationships
that leads to a therapeutic goal.
For over three decades, research in health and clinical psychology has consistently indicated that expressive writing, or writing about emotionally challenging experiences, can lead to measurable health benefits. This entry brings into... more
For over three decades, research in health and clinical psychology has consistently indicated that expressive writing, or writing about emotionally challenging experiences, can lead to measurable health benefits. This entry brings into conversation the empirical literature on expressive writing paradigms and the interdisciplinary work of the health humanities.
