Poetry as Therapy: the Life of Anne Sexton (IN: Suicide and the Creative Arts, edited by S Stack & D Lester)

Year: 2009 Source: New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., (2009). p.259-269 SIEC No: 20100089

This chapter explores the value of having clients use their own poetry as a mean of working through psychological conflicts & distress. The life of Anne Sexton, an American poet, who died by suicide at the age of 45 is used as illustration. (20 refs.)

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