AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
Notes
-
Research background
Fairy tales have been used in therapy with disturbed children for several decades. Studies by psychologists such as Bruno Bettelheim (1976), and more recently Feuerverger (2010) and Hours (2014), among others, indicate that children’s unconscious responses to fairy tales can help with recovery and increasing resilience. In the writing of new fairy tales and fantasy, children’s writer Susan Cooper (1996) talks about writers opening the ‘unbiddable door’ (the unconscious) as they create stories that will resonate deeply with readers. Although I am an Australian children’s writer, my focus is on Western European fairy tales and their endurance.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 22 Feb 2018 08:31:50
Export this record