USING POETRY AS A PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TOOL:THEORETICAL APPROACHES, TECHNIQUES AND METHODS

The article considers the problems of a new modern direction of psychotherapy and psychology – poetry therapy, which is a type of art therapy and a direction of bibliotherapy. Poetry therapy is one of the effective means of psychological and psychotherapeutic assistance using poetry. Against the background of the growing importance of various types of creativity and art in alleviating people's experience of increasing stress, an intensifying existential crisis, poetry therapy is actively spreading among practicing psychologists, but continues to remain a poorly developed area in the theoretical aspect, there is a shortage of publications on the problem, substantive and analytical, generalizing and systematizing nature, the absence of a bank of methods for the work of poetry therapists with clients and their special training. The article theoretically generalizes and systematizes approaches to the use of poetry (and its forms and genres) as a psychotherapeutic tool, offers the author's developments.