Describes an insight achieved during the author's own therapy through her knowledge of J.M. Synge's play "Riders to the Sea," regarding issues in her own and her mother's life. (SR)

Explicates a sonnet by Hellen Jaskoski to illustrate the benefits of the therapeutic use of poetry. Gives particular attention to organization, condensation, clarification, safety, catharsis, and mastery. (SR)

Offers 15 humorous questions and answers for certifying Bards for poetry therapy who, once certified, will know exactly what to do when an irresistible farce faces down an immovable objective correlative. (SR)

Suggests that the poet and the psychotherapist begin with different motivations and address quite different tasks. Discusses the paradox embodied in poetry therapy. (SR)

Argues that Lavinia of "Titus Andronicus" is Shakespeare's metaphor for the wounds of division between spoken and written word, who talks in signs, and is both poet and agent of healing: the poem's capacity to sustain the passion of rapture and its capacity to shape a house of consciousness for the particular movement within the…

Discusses the ancient "Bardic Mystery" and its descent into the body to let an old Self die. Analyzes the poetry of three contemporary poets to provide substantial support for the role of the poet in the therapeutic process. Connects self-discovery, transformation, and communal awareness to the healing aspects of the lyric, epic, and…

Explores the role of biblio/poetry therapy as an avenue into the spirit that can promote spirituality, perception, insight, relevancy, integration, and totality. (SR)

Offers a personal narrative which focuses on the grief process and links personal, literary, and clinical elements. (SR)

Argues that the creative process of formulating poetic imagery during therapy may control, integrate, and communicate emotional distress. Illustrates these ideas using the poetry and reflections of a middle-aged woman in analytically oriented therapy. (SR)

Describes the method of "Immersion" to help a client intensify the will to live through a dosed deepening of a feeling of a death which creates a "Force for Pushing Out." Uses the author's own verse as an example of poetry therapy in the context of this method. (SR)

Examines the uses of poetry and metaphor in promoting the human rights of silence/thought; discovery/awareness; communication bridges; being creative; and altering perceptions while promoting hope. (SR)

Presents the process of poetry writing as a method for the study and management of countertransference feelings in the treatment of patients with varying degrees of pathology. Present several poems which serve a number of functions, such as recording, documenting, exploring, and analyzing countertransferential feelings. (SR)

Suggests that a quote from the 17th-century English physician and writer Thomas Browne captures the essence of the poetry of healing. Argues that healing, at its highest calling, combines the technical mastery of the problem with the response of the whole human being to the mystery; and that this many-faceted response is poetry. (SR)

Relates a case history of the stormy psychotherapy of a young man with borderline syndrome involving powerful self-hatred and self-destructive urges. Concludes that his progress in therapy was marked by distinct changes in the poetry he wrote for his therapist. (PA)

Provides a framework and suggests tools to assist the grieving for loss of dreams. Discusses distinguishing which losses are loss of dreams, grieving the loss of dreams, putting shattered dreams in perspective, and having new dreams. (SR)