A therapeutic approach to teaching poetry : individual development, psychology, and social reparation /
Williams, Todd O.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The therapeutic value of poetry -- Gaining awareness and overcoming defenses -- (Neuro) psychoanalytic regression and integration -- The teacher as (whole, useful, permanent) object -- The poem as (self-, transformational, transitional, reparative) object -- A poetry therapy model for the classroom -- Cultivating empathy: Wordsworth's lyrical ballads -- A reparative text: Tennyson's In memoriam -- Integrating experience: Morris's The defence of Guenevere and other poems -- Desire and reparation: Rossetti's Goblin market and other poems.
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