Neurological Disorders - BJSTR Journal

Abstract

This article contemplates creative writing as #psychotherapy. It represents the human society as #neurotic and suggests creative writing as an important mechanism to control the ailment. The article describes the three ways in which creative writing can act as check to neurosis and they include free association, substitute gratification and transference. The human mind is the engine house of all #human activities. It is responsible for how humans think, react, and understand things. Hence, in its process of trying to grapple with the challenges of life, the human mind can be plunged into some kind of anxiety, or unreasonable fear, and behaviour or may get stressed up as a result of the need to repeat unnecessary actions. When the human mind finds itself in this kind of situation, the consequence is that it results to what is called neurosis. Terry Eagleton [1] explains that neurosis is caused by some kind of conflict in the human mind. He argues that the neurotic is a person whose "unconscious is most #damagingly at work” or a person with "psychological disturbance of one form or the other” (158). Martin Gross [2] also notes that neurosis is mostly caused by stress which root-cause is anxiety. Gross explains further that "anxiety is the chief characteristic of neuroses” (320). Of course, no human mind is free from the challenges of life. As a matter of fact, this is the fact that has earned the human race its description as neurotic. This description is also evident in Eagleton's explanation of the term and his argument that the human society is peopled with persons who are faced with one challenge or the other.

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