| Contents |
Foreword: Ne t'es-tu fais mal, mon enfant? / Theodor Reik -- Preface: The vacuum / Lewis R. Wolberg -- Introduction: The healing power of poetry / Jack J. Leedy -- Treatment of a psychotic patient by poetry therapy / Robert E. Jones -- Poetry therapy with hospitalized schizophrenics / Kenneth F. Edgar, Richard Hazley, Herbert I. Levit -- Poetry therapy for psychoneurotics in a mental health center / Charles Crootof -- The universal language of rhythm / Joost A.M. Meerloo -- Principles of poetry therapy / Jack J. Leedy -- Poetry as therapy, and therapy as poetry / Milton M. Berger -- Poetry therapy with disturbed adolescents / Morris Robert Morrison -- Thoughts on the poets' corner / Kenneth Burke -- Validation of poetry therapy as a group therapy technique / Kenneth F. Edgar, Richard Hazley -- Poetry, a way to fuller awareness / W. Douglas Hitchings -- The psalms as psychological and allegorical poems / Joseph H. Gelberman, Dorothy Kobak -- Poetry as communication in psychotherapy / Harold Greenwald -- Poetry as a therapeutic art / Rolland S. Parker -- The use of poetry in individual psychotherapy / Smiley Blanton -- Poetry therapy in a "600" school and in a counseling center / Dorothy Kobak -- Why poetry? / S. Sue Robinson, Jean K. Mowbray -- The use of poetry in a private mental hospital / Aaron Kramer -- AFTLI and/or poetry therapy / Samuel Alvin Greenberg -- The double door / Robert E. Jones -- The patient's sense of the poem: affinities and ambiguities / David V. Forrest -- A curriculum proposal for training poetry therapists / Kenneth F. Edgar, Richard Hazley -- Postscript: metamessages and self-discovery / S.I. Hayakawa -- In memoriam: Eli Greifer, 1902-1966 -- Appendix: List of poems suitable for use in poetry therapy. |
| Local note | Inscribed on front fly-leaf "To Dick [Richard] Eberhart, from Sally [Craipie?]. June 1974." Stuart Wright Book Collection #32.11. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Leedy, Jack J., 1921- Poetry therapy. Philadelphia, Lippincott [1969] |
| LCCN | 67015033 |
