Healing Through Catharsis in Poetry
In poetry, like in medicine, life is often experienced in extremis, each individual’s vantage point offering a distinct window into the most beautiful or tragic conditions that can attend human beings. Because it also deeply confronts such intensity, poetry can be a key to cathartically unlocking the inescapable pain felt in medical care. In his foundational treatise Poetics, Aristotle explained…
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