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Wordplay and Stanzas: Poetry Therapy for Non-Clinical Population

Author(s) Ms. Trisha Verma, Dr. Anshul Jaiswal
Country India
Abstract Poetry therapy, by the sound of it, might seem like a fairly new technique in the field of Psychology, but McCulliss (2011) highlighted that even in the 1st century AD, where it was used by Soranus, who prescribed it as healing words to his psychiatric patients in Egypt. Poetry as a therapeutic technique slowly gained its popularity after the 1950s, and even psychologists like Sigmund Freud stated that “Not I, but the poet discovered the unconscious.”
Holding a theoretical base of psychodynamic and humanistic, it not only helps in self-expression and catharsis but also in self-discovery, promotes self-acceptance, and collective healing. Despite being a part of Narrative therapy, a huge research gap has been identified in its application in India, with very minimal research.
For a country rich in linguistics and poets of every dialect, it has not made its way into a therapeutic technique or an intervention. Thus, in this paper, the researcher explores the use of poetry therapy on the non-clinical population and understands the benefits of the same, with the hope that it can be implemented.
Aforesaid, empirical review papers and articles were considered, and to make a coherence of it all, narrative synthesis was used. This helped the researcher find out common themes, patterns, and gaps in the existing literature. This paper holds relevance in understanding a new therapeutic technique that can be explored and used apart from the already existing techniques, and paves the way for further research in the same.
Keywords Poetry therapy, non-clinical population, narrative synthesis
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-08
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.73438
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