poetry therapy

The use of language arts, metaphor, narrative, and the reading of and listening to the reading of poetry in clinical treatment, either as an adjunct or a central part of the intervention process. According to Nicholas Mazza (Poetry therapy: Toward a research agenda for the 1990s, Arts in Psychotherapy, 20[1993], 51), poetry therapy and bibliotherapy are often used synonymously. The National Association of Poetry Therapy was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Port Washington, New York.