SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

In this study, five psychologists in Swedish mental health care who incorporate reading and writing in their clinical work were interviewed about how they incorporate such activities and how they perceive reading and writing in terms of patient recovery. Also psychotherapy researchers Summers and Barber described that autobiographies poetry and artwork might support self-expression and self-understanding and therefore they recommend integration of reading and writing in psychotherapy. This is in line with Djikic and Oatleys findings that fiction can start a process of change involving improved empathy since literature offers a simulation of oneself in the social world which is a precursor to change. The participants thus seem to have an intuitive sense of how to incorporate reading and writing in their clinical work that is line with results from research studies as well as poetry therapy methods. suggest that during such moments patients may sense that the difference in power between practitioner and patient is momentarily erased an experience that might support sense of self-worth as well as agency.