Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Award Date
2016
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department / School
English
First Advisor
Christine Stewart
Keywords
healing narrative, trauma narrative, trauma theory
Abstract
In this collection, I explore the process of writing to heal from trauma. In exploring the rhetorical landscape of trauma writing, I offer a new framework for understanding how those who experience a traumatic event may use the process of writing creatively to engage in a process of healing. I argue that through the creation of art, individuals may take ownership of their experiences and memories, thus exerting the agency over the experience that was lost as the result of trauma. I also demonstrate and reflect upon my own journey in creating the healing narrative as a process of healing from trauma.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Narrative therapy.
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
Poetry -- Therapeutic use.
Mothers -- Death -- Poetry.
Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry.
Psychic trauma.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-103)
Format
application/pdf
Number of Pages
110
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Oorlog, Carrie Crisman, "Within and Without: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, and the Healing Narrative" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1111.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/1111
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