Writing as Healing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2387376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily F Nye (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 439-452 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/107780049700300405 |
| OpenAlex | W2006029647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Research conducted with a writing group at an HIV clinic demonstrated how writing was healing. The research used grounded theory to help show patterns m the writers' discourse and in the narratives they constructed. Results showed that people in the writing group constructed four different kinds of narrative, each with a different healing function. These narratives included making sense of life in general, teaching others about AIDS, helping others with AIDS and generating a community of support, and gaining control and empowerment by claiming one's own experience and survival of AIDS. An individual healing occured as the writers wrote and witnessed their stories, whereas a social healing occured through the experience of forming a writing community
Art · Creative writing · Empowerment · Ethnography · Grounded theory · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Literature · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Medicine · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2009 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |