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Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini
Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
Most of the psychological work on poetry has investigated the poet (Mason, Mort, Woo, 2015; Jamison, 1989) or the expressive act of writing poetry (Fink & Drake, 2016, Coulehan & Clary, 2005). The National Poetry Foundation commissioned a study in 2006 that examined the general habits of the American public in terms of reading and sharing poetry. This survey found:
- 14% of American population reads poetry.
- Readers in general and poetry readers in particular tend to be women with higher level of education.
- Poetry readers are not loners – high amounts of leisure activity and high sociability.
- Poetry readers tend …
Starting To Work The California Garden In Winter, Leeann Bartolini
Starting To Work The California Garden In Winter, Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
For more than a decade The Healing Art of Writing conference has sought to strengthen compassionate understanding between healthcare providers and those who seek a state of well-being beyond the reach of surgery or pharmacology. Together, the participants share the belief that being cured of disease is not the same thing as being healed, and that a practice of expressive writing promotes both spiritual and physical healing. The writings presented at the 2012 conference, collected here in Tell Me Again, are a powerful testament to that belief. Within these pages you will hear, again and again, words of truth, words …
French Kissing The Earth, Leeann Bartolini
French Kissing The Earth, Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
For more than a decade The Healing Art of Writing conference has sought to strengthen compassionate understanding between healthcare providers and those who seek a state of well-being beyond the reach of surgery or pharmacology. Together, the participants share the belief that being cured of disease is not the same thing as being healed, and that a practice of expressive writing promotes both spiritual and physical healing. The writings presented at the 2012 conference, collected here in Tell Me Again, are a powerful testament to that belief. Within these pages you will hear, again and again, words of truth, words …
Her Eyes, Leeann Bartolini
Her Eyes, Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
For more than a decade The Healing Art of Writing conference has sought to strengthen compassionate understanding between healthcare providers and those who seek a state of well-being beyond the reach of surgery or pharmacology. Together, the participants share the belief that being cured of disease is not the same thing as being healed, and that a practice of expressive writing promotes both spiritual and physical healing. The writings presented at the 2012 conference, collected here in Tell Me Again, are a powerful testament to that belief. Within these pages you will hear, again and again, words of truth, words …
Modernity/Post (A Nod To Robert Hass), Leeann Bartolini
Modernity/Post (A Nod To Robert Hass), Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
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Poetry Of Aunts, Leeann Bartolini
Poetry Of Aunts, Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
Perspectives in Medical Humanities publishes scholarship produced or reviewed under the auspices of the University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, a multi-campus collaborative of faculty, students and trainees in the humanities, medicine, and health sciences. Our series invites scholars from the humanities and health care professions to share narratives and analysis on health, healing, and the contexts of our beliefs and practices that impact biomedical inquiry.
Note To A Suffering Patient, Leeann Bartolini
Note To A Suffering Patient, Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
Perspectives in Medical Humanities publishes scholarship produced or reviewed under the auspices of the University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, a multi-campus collaborative of faculty, students and trainees in the humanities, medicine, and health sciences. Our series invites scholars from the humanities and health care professions to share narratives and analysis on health, healing, and the contexts of our beliefs and practices that impact biomedical inquiry.