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Telling Stories: The Health Benefits of Narrative
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2000
- pp. 3-18
- 10.1353/lm.2000.0011
- Article
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Pennebaker summarizes and highlights the work he and his colleagues from around the world have done over more than ten years in their studies of the health-promoting qualities of writing. His essay focuses primarily on the physical health benefits of writing about traumatic or difficult experience.