[New-Poetry] Dr. Kenneth Gorelick obit

[Anny Ballardini]

Poor man,
pax vobiscum



On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803735.html
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> At St. Elizabeths, he became interested in the use of literature,
> particularly poetry, as therapy. With Sister Arlene Hynes, he set up the
> first standardized training curriculum for poetry therapy, founded the
> Bibliotherapy Training Program at St. Elizabeths and served as its
> co-director and clinical supervisor. Dr. Gorelick was the director of
> continuing medical education for the D.C. Commission on Mental Health
> Services for 20 years, until 1999. He also co-directed the National
> Association for Poetry Therapy's Wordsworth Center for Poetry Therapy
> Training from 1994 to 2007
>
> He was fascinated by the history of the nation's first federally funded
> mental health hospital. He founded its historical museum and often lectured
> on the topic, telling one workshop in 2005 that "St. Elizabeths was
> bedeviled by having to do too much for too many with too little."
>
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