These Roots That Bind Us: Using Writing to Process Grief and Reconstruct the Self in Chronic Illness

Autor/in	Bertrand, Jennifer
Titel	These Roots That Bind Us: Using Writing to Process Grief and Reconstruct the Self in Chronic Illness
Quelle	In: British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 49 (2021) 6, S.766-779 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0306-9885
DOI	10.1080/03069885.2021.1933382
Schlagwörter	Chronic Illness; Grief; Coping; Expressive Language; Writing (Composition); Creative Writing; Psychological Patterns; Pain; Poetry; Figurative Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Trauer; Bewältigung; Schreibübung; Kreatives Schreiben; Schmerz; Lyrik; Poesie
Abstract	Chronic illness diagnoses frequently cause the shattering of personal assumptions about the self and the world, resulting in an experience of alienation and fragmentation of identity. Multiple studies on the effects of expressive writing have demonstrated physical, emotional, and psychological health benefits, yet little is known about how it might offer benefit in response to a chronic illness diagnosis. Combining the transformation-through-writing model with the dual process model for non-death loss and grief, I take an autoethnographic approach to explore how creative writing about Fibromyalgia (FM) allowed me to progress from a first story/loss orientation to a second story/restoration orientation as part of a dialogical process of self-reconstruction. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01