If you knew the end of a story would you still want to hear it? Using research poems to listen to Aboriginal stories

Title
If you knew the end of a story would you still want to hear it? Using research poems to listen to Aboriginal stories
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Saunders, Vicki
Usher, Kim
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9686-5003
Email: kusher@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kusher
Tsey, Komla
Bainbridge, Roxanne
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/08893675.2016.1133082
UNE publication id
une:18958
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.
Link
Citation
Journal of Poetry Therapy, 29(1), p. 1-13
ISSN
1567-2344
0889-3675
Start page
1
End page
13

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