Week 1: The Power of Literary Experience
i.Existential concerns-I
ii. Existential concerns-II
• Bhartrihari, “Fear of Death”
• Rabindranath Tagore, “Give Me Strength”
iii. Emotional wellbeing- I
iv.Emotional wellbeing- II
v.Personality- I
vi.Personality- II
vii.Simulation and higher order thinking
viii.Empathy and emotional intelligence
Week 2: Poetry and Healing
i.Poetry therapy-I
ii.Poetry therapy- II
• Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
•Danna Faulds, “Allow”
iii. Verbal imagery and healing-I
iv. Verbal imagery and healing-II
v. Rhetoric and prosody- I
vi. Rhetoric and prosody- II
vii. Rhetoric and prosody- III
viii. Rhetoric and prosody- IV
Week 3: Conquering Fear
i. The psychology of fear and anxiety-I
ii. The psychology of fear and anxiety-I
iii. John Donne, ‘Death be not Proud”
iv. Robert Frost, “The Road not Taken”
Week 4: Defeating Depression i. Feeling Weird, Losing Touch-I
ii. Feeling Weird, Losing Touch-II
iii. Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Break, Break, Break”
iv. John Keats, “Ode on Melancholy”
Week 5: Negotiating Trauma
i. Unclaimed Experiences-I
ii. Unclaimed Experiences-II
iii. Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise”
iv. Elizabeth Murphy, “The Night That Changed Everything”
Week 6: Overcoming Heartbreak
i. Love. Heartbreak, and Healing-I
II. Love. Heartbreak, and Healing-II
iii. Robert Browning, “The Last Ride Together”
iv. Derek Walcott, “The Fist”
Week 7: Taming Substance Abuse
i. The Culture of Escape: Elusion or Illusion? -I
ii. The Culture of Escape: Elusion or Illusion? -II
iii. Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”
iv. Charles Bukowski, “The Suicide Kid”
Week 8:Beating Eating Disorder
i. Mimetic Desire and the Possessed Body- I
ii. Mimetic Desire and the Possessed Body- II
iii. Carol Ann Duffy, “The Diet”
iv. Marty McConnell, “Instructions for a Body”
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