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Writing about your trauma in third person helps recovery

Thursday, December 5, 2013
Iowa City Press-Citizen
http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/writing-third-person-about-trauma-045254/#MF…

Writing your memoirs or simply recollecting traumatizing memories is a common therapeutic tool, and a new UI study found that switching to writing in third person eases recovery.

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