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The Mind's Eye - Image and Memory in Writing About Trauma (Paperback)
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The Mind's Eye - Image and Memory in Writing About Trauma (Paperback)
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In the post - September 11 world, therapeutic writing has become a
topic of heightened interest in both academic circles and the
popular press, reflecting a growing awareness that writing can have
a beneficial effect on the emotional and cognitive lives of
survivors of traumatic experiences. Yet teachers and others who
encounter such writing often are unsure how to deal with it. In
""The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma"",
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy investigates the relationship between
writing and trauma, examines how we process difficult experiences
and how writing can help us to integrate them, and provides a
pedagogy to deal with the difficult life stories that often surface
in the classroom. MacCurdy begins by discussing what trauma is, how
traumatic memories are stored and accessed, and how writing affects
them. She then focuses on the processes involved in translating
traumatic images into narrative form, showing how the same patterns
and problems emerge whether the writers are students or
professionals. Using examples drawn from the classroom, MacCurdy
investigates the beneficial effects of the study of trauma on
communities as well as individuals, witnesses as well as writers,
and explores the implications of these relationships for the world
at large, particularly as they pertain to issues of justice,
retribution, and forgiveness. Throughout the volume, the author
draws on her own experience as teacher, writer, survivor, and
descendant of survivors to explain how one can engage student work
on difficult subjects without appropriating the texts or getting
lost in the emotions generated by them. She further shows how
appropriate safe-guards can be put in place to protect both teacher
and student writer. The end result of such a pedagogy, MacCurdy
demonstrates, is not simply better writers but more integrated
people, capable of converting their own losses and griefs into
compassion for others.
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