Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When used correctly, therapeutic writing is an effective tool in psychotherapy and self-help. But who is it suitable for and how ...

Writing therapy, whether as a solo practice or done in partnership with a licensed mental health clinician, has long been a powerful tool “for unpacking and making sense of our thoughts and feelings,” ...

As a writer and trauma researcher, I’m fascinated by the connection between writing (an act), healing (a process), and health (a state). In clinical practice and in workshops and courses I’ve led, ...

Stuart Johnson was skeptical about the writing therapy his psychologist recommended to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder. Writing, the Persian Gulf War veteran said, was not his forte. But the ...

Children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) can be successfully treated with only a few hours of EMDR or cognitive behavioral writing therapy (CBWT). This is the finding of a ...

Kathleen Cowan was diagnosed with breast cancer 14 years ago. She was in remission for nine years, until the doctors saw it came back at one of her regular check-ups. The cancer had swiftly spread ...

Now, write it down and tell it in first-person, as if it’s happening right now. Vividly describe what it looks, sounds, smells, tastes and feels like. Don’t hold back. Such an exercise could be ...

Content warning: This story contains mentions of conversion therapy. I was 15 years old when my mother asked me if I was gay. The copy of André Aciman’s “Call Me by Your Name” I borrowed from my ...

Bloom’s new short stories are weird, too; while some of the tales in A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You are brilliantly written and elegantly economical, several have something of the case study ...