Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, in the first of several phone conversations this past spring, Burroughs tells me that his goal in putting his harrowing past ...

Writing about trauma can affect us profoundly. A 1986 study found that students asked to write about traumatic memories reduced the number of times they visited a health centre for illness, injury, a ...

A comparatively quick treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, in which a patient writes about traumatic experiences in five supervised 30-minute sessions, is as effective as the therapies most ...

Writing therapy, whether as a solo practice or done in partnership with a licensed mental health clinician, has long been a powerful tool “for unpacking and making sense of our thoughts and feelings,” ...