A SZELF MEGERŐSÍTÉSE TERÁPIÁS ÍRÁSSAL. A FIKCIÓ, MINT ESZKÖZ
STRENGTHENING THE SELF WITH THERAPEUTIC WRITING. FICTION AS A TOOL

Summary/Abstract: Strengthening the Self with Therapeutic Writing. Fiction as a Tool. In therapy, we can integrate in our work things that did not happen actually. This is also valid in the case of writing therapy. When a patient accepts a fictional practice, and tries to perform it, it breaks down his own self-defense mechanism more easily. Such a fictional practice could be talking with a body part or bad trait, rewriting the story of a trauma, introducing new characters, or telling the story from a different per-spective. A world that does not follow the rules of reality can give an internal libera-tion that strengthens the self, weakened by external conditions, and heals the dam-aged self.That is what Celia Hunt’s book, Therapeutic Dimension of Autobiography in Cre-ative Writing, is about, and Thompson Kate in her The Therapeutic Journal Writing. An Introduction for Professionals and James W. Pennebaker and John F. Evans in their Expressive Writing: Words That Heal also devote several chapters specifically to this topic.The most important criteria in this type of writing are to be truly authentic without any role-play.The wisdom of trauma lies in not identifying with the circumstances that make our life narrow and turning to the whole world. This is analogous to religious con-version, the search for the Kingdom of God, the childish open-minded view of the world that Jesus encouraged us to have.

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