Writing as a way of healing : how telling our stories transforms our lives /

DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018

Writing as a way of healing : how telling our stories transforms our lives / Louise DeSalvo. - 1st Beacon Press ed. - Boston : Beacon Press, 2000. - xiii, 226 pages ; 21 cm.

Originally published: San Francisco : Harper, c1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226 ).

DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process

0807072435 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780807072431 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Authorship--Psychological aspects.
Diaries--Authorship.
Autores--Aspectos psicológicos
Arte de escribir.
Lenguaje escrito
Psicolingüística
Lenguaje y pensamiento.
Diarios personales

PN 171 / D441w 2000

808/.02/019