Vol. 21, Issue Special 38, 2017

Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee Brien Leanne Dodd

Special Issue 38 features papers from the ‘Enlightened: Narratives and Narrative Strategies to Awaken Applied and Creative Humanism’ Conference held in Noosa, Queensland, Australia, November 2016.

Special Issues: scholarly article

Writing therapy: paradox, peril and promise

Ffion Murphy

This paper proposes that tertiary writing education can benefit from the explicit study of writing therapy as a complex, evolving and contested set of theories and practices.

Special Issues: scholarly article
Plot interrupted: reproducing the narrative benefits of trauma fiction in crime fiction
Leanne Dodd
This article demonstrates how crime writers can create works that may fit the criteria for transformative therapy.
Special Issues: scholarly article
The ‘punches behind the punch’: poetry as Victim Impact Statement
Nicole Anae
From the perspective of humanism, this paper argues that the poetry found in Victim Impact Statements presents dual functions, both affective and rational.
Special Issues: scholarly article
On representing autism and the altruism of self-reflexive writing
Katie Sutherland
While self-reflexive narratives can be immensely healing for the writer, they also invite readers to reflect upon the issues and bring about a shift in their own thinking.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Narratives of death and dying from one remove: surveying the undertaker’s memoir
Donna Lee Brien
While most memoirs on the topic of death and dying could be classified as illness memoirs, there are a surprising number focused on the life and work of the undertaker...

Special Issues: scholarly article

Writing domestic violence in Marian Keyes’ This Charming Man (2008)

Lauren O'MahonyKathryn Trees

The narrative organisation of This Charming Man represents domestic violence in a way that prioritises healing, physically, mentally and emotionally...

Special Issues: scholarly article

Nurse as wounded healer in The English Patient

Margaret McAllister

The novel is a writerly text; the meaning needs to be unravelled by the reader and, due to this feature, it also makes for interesting reading about nursing...

Special Issues: scholarly article

Narratives of mental health nursing in the emergency department

Toby PriceMargaret McAllister

Storytelling can take on another layer of meaning when clinicians become more conscious of the stories they hear, recall these, and then re-tell them to their clients and carers...

Special Issues: scholarly article
Lived experience and personal narrative: pathways to connection
Louise Byrne
First person narratives drawing on experiences in mental health settings and services provide important insights into the lived experience of suffering, healing and recovery...
Special issues: creative works
Semantics
Heather Taylor Johnson
Let’s talk about needles, their steely eyes and sharp tongues...
Special issues: creative works
All the little boxes
Milissa Deitz
I am pressed for time, time past...
Special issues: creative works
Segomotsi
Eugen M. Bacon
SEGOMOTSI – YOUR NAME means a comfort in Setswana...
Special Issues: scholarly article
Using blogging to engage nursing students in reflective practice
Colleen RyanPenny HeidkeNicole BluntMoira WilliamsonDonna Lee Brien
This article investigates blogging as useful in non-writing disciplines, e.g. nursing, where reflective practice has been identified as a framework to assist in developing professional maturation in difficult environments.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Power in the moment: using autoethnographic narrative to unlock understandings of collaborative performance
Judith Brown
In examining the musical collaboration between a pianist and a choir, analysis of the narrative data provides a rich understanding of the unseen aspects of collaborative practice in music performance...
Special Issues: scholarly article
Using diary writing: a narrative of radical courage
Debra PhillipsElaine Lindsay
Diary entries can reveal to the diarist and researcher alike the beginnings of a new self-narrative that is not yet fully imagined nor articulated...
Special Issues: scholarly article
An emotional, physical and humanistic response to performed data
Gail Crimmins
This article demonstrates that theatrically performed narrative data can humanise an audience’s engagement and response to research data and encourage personal change.

Vol. 21, Issue Special 38, 2017 Illumination through narrative: using writing to explore hidden life experience, edited by Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee Brien and Leanne Dodd

Vol. 21, Issue Special 38, 2017
Illumination through narrative: using writing to explore hidden life experience, edited by Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee Brien and Leanne Dodd