Writing as a way of healing : how telling our stories transforms our lives /
Louise DeSalvo.
- 1st Beacon Press ed.
- Boston : Beacon Press, 2000.
- xiii, 226 pages ; 21 cm.
Originally published: San Francisco : Harper, c1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226 ).
DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process