If you knew the end of a story would you still want to hear it? Using research poems to listen to Aboriginal stories
- Publisher:
- Informa UK Limited
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2016, 29, (1), pp. 1-13
- Issue Date:
- 2016-01-02
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents a poem created whilst conducting an inquiry into one of the endings of stories told of, and by, people living with mental illness: this story ending is grouped by a word (and social movement) widely known as Recovery in mental health care. Recovery, however, is not a word commonly used in the places where this Inquiry occurred. Nor is it a category of story ending often told about Australian Aboriginal people living with a diagnosis of chronic mental illness. This inquiry was, and is, thus focussed on how the current endings of stories that surround Australian Aboriginal peoples in mental health care are being/were told and “heard”. This paper is an attempt to use poetry as a therapeutic and storytelling strategy to highlight the difference between hearing and listening, and how that difference relates to the word Recovery as a paradigm shift and story of social change.
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