Description
Part 1: finding a writing voice: the notion of 'writing voice'; autobiography and creative writing - the creative writing course; therapeutic dimensions of finding a writing voice; the dual role of the creative writing course. Part 2: fioctionalising ourselves: writing and self-exposure; using oneself as a first person narrator - Sarah's story; Karen Horney's idea of inner conflicts; Sarah's story from the Horneyan point of view; using oneself as a fictional character - Jane's story; towards a Horneyan understanding of problems of shelving the critical faculty; therapeutic dimensions of ficitonalising ourselves. Part 3: fictionalising our significant others: the voices of others in our personal narratives; finding a voice for our parents and siblings - Jennifer's story; therapeutic dimensions of the 'dual voice'; finding a form for a fragmented identity - Jessica's story; becoming author of our personal narratives; fictional autobiography and narrative therapy. Part 4: fictional autobiography in self-therapy and psychotherapy; fictions of self in autobiography and psychotherapy; the possibilities of a psychoanalytic autobiography; the question of transference: writers as readers of their own texts; writing versus speaking in therapy; fictional autobiography in self-therapy and psychotherapy.