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Finding the Words to Say It: The Healing Power of Poetry
Robert Carroll, UCLA Dept of Psychiatry: from the Oxford Journal of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Nat'l Assn. of Poetry Therapy
The use of the written and spoken word to facilitate healing, growth and transformation

Poets.org
The Academy of American Poets

An interesting case report of hypergraphia for poetry in an epileptic patient

 

When building any village, planners must take into account both the necessities and the vanities of its occupants. The Artistic Expressions Section of the WPS Residents’ Village Website was designed as a reservoir for the creative interests, thoughts, musings and opinions of Psychiatry residents in this diverse, exciting city. This part of the Village should serve as an aqueduct by which the imaginations of our members can be articulated, displayed, and channeled—be it through poetry, prose, photography, music, film reviews, book reviews, or anything else that can be transcribed. The Artistic Expressions Section will also provide that invaluable component that makes life in any village or city truly livable: entertainment. So lose yourself for a moment in these poems, these stories, these songs, that tell of the more intriguing (and perhaps more important) sides of our varied lives; and find yourself immersed, refreshed, and awakened to the wonderful world inside.

Original Work

Of Love and Hate at St. Elizabeths Hospital, The Last Stop
By Enrico Suardi

A Butterfly’s Flutter: A Discussion of Science, Religion, and Chaos
By Hind Benjelloun

“Inside the River”
-James Dickey

The Umbrella
For Beverly

A Look in the Mirror
by Hind Benjelloun

Selected Poem with Commentary

“Dover Beach”
by Matthew Arnold, 1867