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Author_Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
balancing empathy and boundaries
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classroom approaches to difficult stories
cognitive effects of writing
collective witness and response
community impact of trauma studies
compassionate classroom frameworks
compassionate engagement with loss
creating safe writing environments
emotional recovery through text
emotional resilience through writing
emotional safety protocols
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ethical engagement with student work
ethics of reading traumatic work
expressive narrative practices
grief and narrative meaning-making
guidance for sensitive material
guiding student storytellers
healing through storytelling
integrating painful memories
justice and reconciliation themes
literary responses to suffering
narrative integration of painful events
narrative reconstruction of memory
narrative transformation of suffering
pedagogies of compassion
processing overwhelming experiences
protecting student wellbeing
psychology of memory
reflective practice for educators
reflective teaching methods
repercussions of traumatic recall
restorative narrative practices
supportive frameworks for d
supportive teaching strategies
survivor knowledge in pedagogy
survivor narratives in education
survivor-centered pedagogy
translating images into narrative
trauma and the creative mind
trauma in contemporary classrooms
trauma theory in education
trauma's effects on imagination
trauma-informed community building
trauma-informed writing
trauma-sensitive teaching tools
writing as emotional regulation
writing as meaning-making
Product details
- ISBN 9781558495586
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 154 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2007
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the post - September 11 world, therapeutic writing has become a topic of heightened interest in both academic circles and the popular press, reflecting a growing awareness that writing can have a beneficial effect on the emotional and cognitive lives of survivors of traumatic experiences. Yet teachers and others who encounter such writing often are unsure how to deal with it. In ""The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma"", Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy investigates the relationship between writing and trauma, examines how we process difficult experiences and how writing can help us to integrate them, and provides a pedagogy to deal with the difficult life stories that often surface in the classroom. MacCurdy begins by discussing what trauma is, how traumatic memories are stored and accessed, and how writing affects them. She then focuses on the processes involved in translating traumatic images into narrative form, showing how the same patterns and problems emerge whether the writers are students or professionals. Using examples drawn from the classroom, MacCurdy investigates the beneficial effects of the study of trauma on communities as well as individuals, witnesses as well as writers, and explores the implications of these relationships for the world at large, particularly as they pertain to issues of justice, retribution, and forgiveness. Throughout the volume, the author draws on her own experience as teacher, writer, survivor, and descendant of survivors to explain how one can engage student work on difficult subjects without appropriating the texts or getting lost in the emotions generated by them. She further shows how appropriate safe-guards can be put in place to protect both teacher and student writer. The end result of such a pedagogy, MacCurdy demonstrates, is not simply better writers but more integrated people, capable of converting their own losses and griefs into compassion for others.
MARIAN MESROBIAN MACCURDY is professor of writing at Ithaca College.
