A Friendly Reunion

Today I met with two writer friends, one who lives in France

and the other who visited from New Zealand. Sue came to Saas Fe

in Swiss Alps to attend a workshop on art therapy. We had a discussion

the value of art therapy and the differences between art therapy and

therapeutic writing. The latter is used to alleviate addictive disorders

like smoking and drug usage and has proven to be an effective way

of withdrawal. It was statistically demonstrated that therapeutic writing

based on life-experience alleviates the withdrawal symptoms as well.

We also spoke about to what extent poetry writing can help resolve

intrapsychic problems which was one of the themes of my dissertation

in which I came to the conclusion that it can do so only partially. A really

nice day under a lovely sky.