Record #:

31358

Author(s):

Chepesiuk, Rob

Abstract:

Grace Freeman is a renown, award-winning poet who, for the last eight years, has worked as a poetry therapist at Gaston-Lincoln Mental Health Center in Gastonia. Freeman helps patients to reduce their anxiety and to express their true feelings through poetry. Her work has helped make poetry therapy as acceptable to health care institutions as alternative therapy techniques involving the creative and fine arts.

Source:

Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Feb 1984, p32, il

Subject(s):

Poetry; Therapeutics; Mental health services