W11 Chapter 11.2 Healing And Integration

Question 1

What are the two primary functions of stories and storytelling?

Answer 1

1. Integration
2. Healing

Question 2

What is the psychological power of children’s fairy tales?

Answer 2

They help children work through internal conflicts and crises

Question 3

What does Marcus (1977) say illness amounts to?

Answer 3

Suffering form an incoherent story or an inadequate narrative account of oneself

Question 4

How is the integration or cognitive reorganisation of a traumatic event achieves?

Answer 4

Through confiding and consciously confronting the perceptions and feelings associated with the traumatic event

Question 5

What two factors does Pennebaker (1992) suggest are important disclosure that makes for the reduction in physiological arousal and obsessive thought?

Answer 5

1. The degree of negative emotion expressed
2. The extent to which a traumatic event is reconstructed as a well-formed story

Question 6

What two qualities did Pennebaker discovered about people whose health improved the most following disclosure?

Answer 6

1. They used significantly more negative emotion words
2. They used few positive emotion words

Question 7

What two components are important in healthy writing?

Answer 7

1. Negative emotion
2. Building a clear cognitive story