Opening up : the healing power of expressing emotions
Psychologist James W. Pennebaker has conducted controlled clinical research that sheds new light on the powerful mind-body connection. This book interweaves his findings with insightful case studies on secret-keeping, confession, and the hidden price of silence. Filled with encouragement, Opening Up explains : how writing about your problems can improve your health, how long-buried trauma affects the immune system, why it's never too late to heal old emotional wounds, when self-disclosure may be risky-and how to know whom to trust
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)
9781462504848, 1462504841
903937970
Confession and inhibition : the beginnings of an approach
Inhibition as a health threat
Becoming healthier through writing
Confession in the laboratory
The battle to inhibit our thoughts
On speeding up coping
Understanding the value of writing
The social price of disclosure : whom to tell and how to listen
Love, passion, and thrills
The inhibited personality
Inhibited cities
Confession in context : therapy, religion, and brainwashing
Beyond traumas : writing and well-being