Dreaming Arrival (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Dreaming Arrival Presents a series of very personal reflections on the writing life set in the context of the author's experience of psychoanalysis. This book looks not only at the way 'therapy' affects writing, but also at how the writing may affect the process of the therapy itself.
Full description- Publisher: Shearsman Books
- Published: 15 April 2008
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Autobiography: Literary | Memoirs | Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | Psychotherapy
- ISBN 13: 9781905700561 ISBN 10: 1905700563
Full description for Dreaming Arrival
Circumventing conventional narratives of trauma and recovery, 'Dreaming Arrival' presents a series of very personal reflections on the writing life set in the context of John Welch's experience of psychoanalysis. Intensely felt, but always retaining a significant degree of scepticism, the book's starting-point was in a journal the writer kept when in analysis and it refers back to an experience of breakdown and hospitalisation thirty years previously. Calling easy notions of creativity into question 'Dreaming Arrival' looks not only at the way 'therapy' affects writing, but also at how the writing may affect the process of the therapy itself.
