http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/magazine/why-talk-therapy
-is-on-the-wane-and-writing-workshops-are-on-the-rise.html?pagewanted=all
NY Times article says writing groups are replacing traditional therapy.
"The
waning of psychotherapy has clear roots in the rise of
psychopharmacology. Drug companies have been hard at work over the past
three decades, marketing meds to troubleshoot our faulty brain
chemistry. As managed care has compelled more and more psychiatrists to
trade their notebooks for prescription pads, the classic image of the
patient on the couch has been replaced by a man with a pill in his palm.
The
ascent of creative-writing, particularly in an age dominated by the
impatient pursuit of visual stimulation, might seem harder to explain.
But my sense is that people remain desperate for the emotional communion
provided by literature."
