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Part 1 Current practice of creative writing in personal development: Writing and the self - the role of the emotion in the finding of a writing voice, Celia Hunt; The self as source - creative generated from personal reflection, Cheryl Moskowitz; Metaphor and metamorphosis - creative writing and mental health , Graham Hartill; Using creative writing with people with learning disability, Fiona Sampson; Writing or pills? therapeutic writing in primary health care, Gillie Bolton; Final fiction? creative writing and terminally ill people, Colin Archer; Creative writing and dementia sufferers, John Killicks. Part 2 Theoretical contexts for creative writing in personal development: Thinking about language as our way through the world - ideas of self and symbol in psychoanalysis and philosophy, Fiona Sampson; The empty word and the full word - a psychoanalytic discussion of the notion of 'finding a voice', Trevor Pateman; writing, the self and the social process, Mary Stuart; The creative word and the created life - the educational context for deep autobiography, Peter Abbs; Creative writing and the psychotherapeutic process, Celia Hunt; The transformative effect of reading, Janet Campbell; Towards a writing therapy? future developments in theory and practice, Fiona Sampson, Celia Hunt.