Shattered subjects : trauma and testimony in women's life-writing / Suzette A. Henke.
In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Shattered Sub...
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Main Author: | Henke, Suzette A. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1998.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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