Telling Stories: The Health Benefits of Narrative
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- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Literature and Medicine
- Vol. 19 (1) , 3-18
- https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0011
Abstract
Pennebaker summarizes and highlights the work he and his colleagues from around the world have done over more than ten years in their studies of the health-promoting qualities of writing. His essay focuses primarily on the physical health benefits of writing about traumatic or difficult experience.Keywords
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