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West Meets East: Processes and Outcomes of Psychotherapy and Haiku/Senryu Poetry

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This paper addresses the commonalities between the creative processes and products of psychotherapists and haiku/senryu poets. These commonalities exist in the realms of awareness/insight; genuineness; “here-and-now” experiencing; interdependence of events; humor; use of blank space; and parsimony.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

    Robert H. Deluty

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Deluty, R.H. West Meets East: Processes and Outcomes of Psychotherapy and Haiku/Senryu Poetry. Journal of Poetry Therapy 15, 207–212 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020721105516

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