A therapeutic approach to teaching poetry
Subtitle: individual development, psychology, and social reparation
By: by Todd O. Williams
Series: Psychoanalysis, education, and social transformation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780230340404
Subjects: Authorship; Therapeutic use; Study and teaching; Poetry
Description: A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry explains how the study of poetry, by providing experiences similar to those produced by poetry therapy, can help students discover themselves and develop their potential to effect change in the world. This pedagogy draws on a number of theoretical and therapeutic models including poetry therapy, psychoanalysis, experiential therapy, metaphor therapy, cognitive science, and neuroscience. This approach to teaching poetry is founded on the belief that education should not only develop students' skills in analysis and communication but also promote self-awareness and social responsibility. This book provides an innovative pedagogical strategy for promoting the development of individuals who can live more personally fulfilling, productive, and socially responsible lives..
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The therapeutic value of poetry; title: Gaining awareness and overcoming defenses; title: (Neuro) psychoanalytic regression and integration; title: The teacher as (whole, useful, permanent) object; title: The poem as (self-, transformational, transitional, reparative) object; title: A poetry therapy model for the classroom; title: Cultivating empathy: Wordsworth's lyrical ballads; title: A reparative text: Tennyson's In memoriam; title: Integrating experience: Morris's The defence of Guenevere and other poems; title: Desire and reparation: Rossetti's Goblin market and other poems.