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Nature Writing And Healing: Recovering The Wild Soul, Denice H. Turner
Nature Writing And Healing: Recovering The Wild Soul, Denice H. Turner
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In this study, I explored how nature writing could be seen as healing text. I described some common problems associated with the construction of trauma and grief narratives and examined how nature writers dealt with them. The study began with my frustration at being unable to write a healing narrative for myself and progressed as I integrated research that informed my own writing.
The literature I read included a variety of perspectives, from Jungian and traditional psychotherapy to current writing theory. I used the theory to comment on the nature writing texts as I discovered them. Using the words and …