ArticleThe Permanente journal2018
Cathartic Poetry: Healing Through Narrative.
Article in The Permanente journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Therapeutic Writing Interventions for Adults With Chronic Pain: Experiences and Health Effects-A Systematic Review With a Narrative Synthesis.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- A Novel Poetic Dignity Therapy Adaptation for Sexual and Gender Minority Patients With Cancer.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Assessing Pain Research: A Narrative Review of Emerging Pain Methods, Their Technosocial Implications, and Opportunities for Multidisciplinary Approaches.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A Look Back and a Path Forward: Poetry's Healing Power during the Pandemic.The Journal of medical humanities · 2020Article
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Abstract
This article explores the efficacy of writing and reading poetry as a means to help people living with chronic pain to explore and express their narratives in their own unique way. Throughout our narrative we have interwoven poems from Eugene Feig, one of the authors of this article. His poetry is sent out almost weekly to the members of our pain support group as a method of sharing his own experiences of living with pain, as well as to support and to inspire hope in others. The style of poetry we are presenting is that of a person who is not knowledgeable about poetry in a formal sense but who has an understanding of how it has helped him learn to live with his own chronic pain and suffering. These poems are the author's expression of the meaning of living with chronic pain for over 20 years. This article is a philosophical hermeneutic conversation about pain and poetry.
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