Recommended Readings
The field of TLA is multi-disciplinary and expansive. Please consult the Goddard Resource Center for extensive readings. What follows here is a list of some of the most referenced books in TLA.
The Power of Words: A TLA Reader is the largest single, explicitly TLA-focused book available. It is a collection of essays by the field’s leading scholars and practitioners and is a great place to start. Other texts related are below.
- Opening Up by James Pennebaker
- Writing as a Way of Healing by Louise deSalvo
- Art as a Way of Knowing by Shaun McNiff
- Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger
- Theater of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
- The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
- How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch
- Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr
- Writing Alone and with Others by Pat Schnieder
- Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- The Way of the Journal by Kathleen Adams
- Poetic Medicine by John Fox
- Life’s Companion by Christina Baldwin
- Callings by Greg Levoy
- The Writing Cure, edited by Lopore adn Smyth
- Creating a Storytelling Tradition by Robin Moore
- Inventing the Truth by William Zissner
- Narrative Medicine by Lewis Mehl Madrona
- Poetry as Healer by Jack Leedy
- Poetry Therapy edited by Nick Mazza
- Storytelling and the Act of Imagination by Nancy Mellon
- The Storytelling Coach by Doug Lipman and Jay O’Callahan
- Acting for Real: Drama Therapy: Process, Technique, and Performance by Renee Emanah
