Great faith has been placed in ‘talking cures’ for many years. American psychologist James Pennebaker came up with the writing version and this edition of Mind Changes tells the story.
One surprising thing, for me at least, was that this refers to temporary writing about a stressful event and not the kind of continuous writing of, say, diary keeping.
In addition to immune/healing there seem also to be improvements in cognitive abilities, specifically working memory.
The programme also touches upon analysis of text and what might indicate that some benefit has occurred. Pronouns are important here.
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