1. Finding our way in Whose voice is it anyway? / Anne Ruggles Gere Language and literature as "equipment for living" : revision as a life skill / Tilly Warnock Suture, stigma, and the pages that heal / Charles M. Anderson with Karen Holt and Patty McGady 2. Traditions and extensions Writing as healing and the rhetorical tradition : sorting out Plato, postmodernism, writing pedagogy, and post-traumatic stress disorder / T.R. Johnson A strange unaccountable something : historicizing sexual abuse essays / Michelle Payne From trauma to writing : a theoretical model for practical use / Marian M. MacCurdy Healing and the brain / Alice G. Brand Pathography and enabling myths : the process of healing / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins 3. Writing and healing in the classroom Language, power, and consciousness : a writing experiment at the University of Toronto / Guy Allen Writing about suicide / Jeffrey Berman and Jonathan Schiff Teaching emotional literacy / Jerome Bump Writing through the fear to reframe experience and discover values / Regina Paxton Foehr 4. Writing and healing in the world Voices from the line : the Clothesline Project as healing text / Laura Julier "The more I tell my story" : writing as healing in an HIV/AIDS community / Emily Nye Las Madres, upstairs/downstairs : from soul maps and story circles to intertextual collaboration / Sandra Florence