{
  "id": 7578855,
  "title": "Healing Through Catharsis in Poetry",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/healing-through-catharsis-in-poetry",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "JAMA",
    "slug": "jama",
    "url": "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2853061"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}