Transforming tales : how stories can change people

Transforming tales : how stories can change people / Rob Parkinson.

The power of story in our lives is far from adequately understood in contemporary culture. Equally the therapeutic power of storytelling, how it can quite literally entrance and even heal, has been ignored until recently. Transforming Tales reveals the true of impact of stories on our lives and how...

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Main Author: Parkinson, Rob, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009.
Subjects:
Narrative therapy.
Storytelling.
Bibliotherapy.
Short stories > Therapeutic use.
Literature and medicine.
Narrative medicine.
Psychotherapy.
Imagination.
bibliotherapy.
imagination.
Counselling & Advice Services.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
Psychotherapy
Narrative medicine
Imagination
Literature and medicine
Bibliotherapy
Narrative therapy
Storytelling
Bibliotherapie.
Verhalen.
Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama).
Other performing arts.
Social counselling & advice services.
Psychiatry.
Health and Wellbeing.
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Table of Contents:
  • Transforming Tales: How Stories Can Change People; Contents; TABLE OF STORIES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. The Natural Storyteller; 2. The Spanish Game: Guided Imagery and Stories; 3. The Way You Tell 'Em: The Art and Craft of Oral Storytelling; 4. Traditional Ways of Storytelling; 5. Marvellous Miniatures: Making Short Metaphors; 6. New Lamps for Old: Transposing Stories; 7. Traps and Treasures: Symbols, Stories within Stories and Metaphorical Literacy; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX.

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