Tell it slant: History, memory, and imagination in the healing writing workshop

Traumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 15-23

  Baker, Sara ^a  

^a Athens Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fiction; Memory; Retraumatization; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649335397     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765609348912     Document Type: Article

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