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Postgraduate Course: Creative Practices: Poetry and Psychotherapy (CNST11076)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Health in Social Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course provides an opportunity to explore creativity and to relate this to the theory and practice of psychotherapy. We will do this through intensive close reading of poetry and examination of the constraints of poetic form. Parallels and intersections between the two forms of practice will be interrogated throughout the course. These will include; sensitivity to language, the use of metaphor; the unconscious, imagination and free association, the use of projection in the co-creation of meaning between writer and reader; the creative use of constraints and boundaries in both practices to overcome the reader; the creative use of constraints and boundaries in both practices to overcome the "inner critic". East session will consist of a close reading session of poetry on selected themes, followed by a period of writing exercises designed to produce drafts leading to original poetic work by the end of the course.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. have developed an advanced appreciation of excelle4nce in modern poetry through intensive reading of texts on selected themes relevant to and resonant with the themes of psychotherapeutic work - strong emotions and attachment to specific times, people and places.
  2. have identified an advanced critical appreciation of writers and themes that speak particularly strongly to themselves.
  3. be able to analyse the effects that produce personal resonance and the technical and formal means that are available to the poet in achieving them.

    have experienced their own ability to create new work and to give and receive critically nuanced interpretative feedback on this work.
  4. have developed an enhanced and advanced ability to think about the meaning and impact of giving expression to the inner world and making it available to criticism.
  5. be able to make theoretical and aesthetic connections between the practice of poetic making and their own understanding and practice of psychotherapy.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Lindy Barbour
Tel:
Email: Lindy.Barbour@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk
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