LETTER TO THE INNER CHILD – EXPRESSIVE WRITING IN LITERARY CONTEXT Cover Image

LEVÉL A BENNÜNK ÉLŐ GYERMEKHEZ – GYÓGYÍTÓ ÍRÁS, BELSŐ GYERMEK, IRODALOM
LETTER TO THE INNER CHILD – EXPRESSIVE WRITING IN LITERARY CONTEXT

Author(s): Györgyi Váradi-Kusztos
Subject(s): Clinical psychology, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: expressive writing; mental health; inner child; Pennebaker; Bradshaw;

Summary/Abstract: Letter to the Inner Child – Expressive Writing in Literary Context. The para-digm of expressive writing and its well-known benefits in the field of improving mental health are well known since the end of the twentieth century. In my essay, I would like to explain the connections of this approach with the highly influential works of John Bradshaw as well as the concept of self-healing through expressive writing with the help of the example found in the classical Hungarian epistolary novel Fanni hagyományai.

  • Issue Year: 67/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 53-63
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian