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Telling Stories: The Health Benefits of Narrative
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Pennebaker summarizes and highlights the work he and his colleagues from around the world have done over more than ten years in their studies of the health-promoting qualities of writing. His essay focuses primarily on the physical health benefits of writing about traumatic or difficult experience.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pennebaker, J. W.
- Venue
- Literature and Medicine
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-18
- ISSN
- 0278-9671 (ISSN-L)
- 1080-6571
- OpenAlex
- W2166048702
- Cited by
- 421
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 5.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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