A Healing Art

Originally published in 1990. This book looks at seven post-World War I autobiographies as crisis narratives and demonstrates how therapy and art merge in autobiography so that the literature acts back upon life.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is Professor of medical humanities at the University of California, Berkeley - Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society.

Introduction: Autobiography in Our Time 1. Writing to Heal 2. Remembering and Imagining 3. Silence and Words 4. Questions and Answers 5. Forming and Transforming 6. Being Alone and Being Connected