Silko explores the power of Native American healing practices in “Ceremony,” some of which modern medicine is beginning to adopt.
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“Yellow Wallpaper” Changed Therapy
Monday The indispensable Literary Hub had a recent article on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper” in which novelist Greer Macallister weighs the advantages of fiction vs. non-fiction. Given that Gilman herself was institutionalized for post-partum psychosis, why would her short story have so much more of an impact than her first-hand accounts of her ”near-catastrophic […]
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The Rich Complain about Shaming
Some wealthy Americans are receiving therapy to make them feel better about their riches. Swift would have something to say about this, as would F. Scott Fitzgerald and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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Poetry Comforts the Mentally Disabled
This “New York Times” article describes how poetry came to the aid of a man with schizoaffective disorder. It also aided his therapist.
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Walking a Pilgrimage, Rediscovering Trees
Walking El Camino de Santiago, a friend discovered the healing power described by David Lodge in “Therapy.”
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