Poetry Therapy

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For example, you might be asked to pick out a favorite word or phrase and discuss it. Whether their ailments were physical or mental, a valid method of liberation was needed. How we define words is how we define ourselves. He wanted a pretty little girl he could really be proud of. ”

From the first to second poem, a theme of transformation was detected.

CAN I SEE AN EXAMPLE?

The following analysis was performed by Licensed Poetry Therapist Dr.

The first Poetry Therapists on record was a Roman physician by the name of Soranus in the first century A.

T: What do you think?

P: (Laughter) It’s really amazing how you can decorate a scruffy old thing.

But I decorated it, and put a star on

top;

Stood there before that shining tree,

And some even whispered admiringly:

“I like your tree, I like your tree. Perception has been expanded, doubt and uncertainty reduced, and feelings validated. I wasn’t a raving beauty, as you can see, I suppose, and I think my father was always disappointed.

P: What about it?

T: If you were to make that tree a person who would it be?

P: (Thoughtful) A scruffy thing.

WHAT IS POETRY THERAPY……….

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