The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how poetry and poetry therapy are useful tools in existentially oriented psychotherapeutic practice. This paper will accomplish this aim in several ways. First, a brief introduction to poetry therapy will be presented. Second, the main principles of existential therapy will be explored. Third, the congruence between poetry therapy and existential theo...

The 19th-century Maltese psychiatrist Thomas Chetcuti was born 3 years before the beginning of British rule in Malta, in 1797, in Mosta, a village in the centre of the island. He studied grammar, languages and classical poetry, as well as engaging in the study of philosophy and developing a great love for Christian literature. Having read law, he turned to pursuing medicine in Naples, to bring ...

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I was delighted to read an article by a Professor Miles Little in the excellent new section of the Internal Medicine Journal called ‘Outside the Square’,1 the title of which reminded me of the cartoon ‘The Far Side’. I had visions of cows standing up making clever ‘oneliners’ to each other. These musings aside, his article was about, of all things, poetry. At first, I could not believe it ... a...

Poems are essential in art and vital organs in literature. Similarly, surgery (and neurosurgery) is also regarded to be an art in medicine. From Hippocrates to nowadays, there is a debate on whether medicine -especially surgery- is a kind of an art or a field of science or a combination of both. This close relation becomes clearer during the practice of surgery, especially in neurosurgery. Here...

The article provides an overview of Slovenian translations Polish literature in the 2019’s and 2020’s reviewers’ responses to these works. A total 23 books were published 2019, including five literary works (three collections poetry two novels). Among 13 following year there eight (one drama, a collection short stories, three novels poetry). publishing e-books also increased significantly 2020....

In offering a brief sketch of some aspects of Herodotus’ use of lyric poetry I shall restrict myself to melic poetry. I shall start with explicit allusions, and then turn to some passages for which Herodotus’ source must have been lyric poetry, and indeed rather grand lyric poetry, though he conceals this. We learn something about his principles and methodology, but also about the diffusion of ...

This study compared eye movements during the reading of authentic prose and poetry with and without enjambment presented in their original layout and in a manipulated layout. We hypothesised that we would find differences in reading patterns on the basis of the layout in which the text was presented. We indeed found differences in reading pattern between prose and poetry, poetry with and withou...

The purpose of the article is to characterize specifics O. Stefanovych's work in context "Prague" poets, reveal its artistic uniqueness, dominant moral and ethical existentials, philosophical content. main attention focused on overview stages writer's creative growth, taking into account lack research his figure by modern literary science. inner hermeticism poet among "people Prague" outlined. ...