Writing can change a life. Putting down your emotions, ideas and anxieties on paper can allow you to leave behind certain blockages. This is the principle of therapeutic writing, a method acclaimed by certain psychologists, in order to overcome trauma, get out of depression or cope with illness or bereavement. Or just to help us move forward on a daily basis and get to know each other better.
How to turn pain into words? Today, Priorité Santé highlights this therapy.
Djaïli Amadou Amal, Cameroonian feminist activist and writer. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2020, for his book The Impatientspublished by Decitre
Nayla Chidiacdoctor in psychopathology, clinical psychologist, founder of the therapeutic writing workshops at Sainte-Anne Hospital Center, a specialist in psychic trauma in adults. Author of The benefits of writing, the benefits of words published by Odile Jacob
Florence Prudhommefounder of the NGO Rwanda future. She created “The Memory Workshop” in 2014 and directed the book Memory Notebooks, Kigali, 2014, published by Classiques Garnier
