Rewritalize

Rewritalize is a research programme structured as a participatory writing project and a creative intervention in mental health care initiated with the introduction of the Center for Arts and Mental health, a multi-arts center at Amager Psychiatric Hospital in Copenhagen in 2017. The project had two main objectives: firstly, to develop guidelines to ensure identical methods for further practice and research; secondly, to identify the mechanisms of the creative group intervention. Rewritalize was led by six professional Danish authors in collaboration with mental health care professionals, and it was structured in a series of creative writing courses and shared reading sessions, using these individual and group activities as therapeutic approaches in both physical and mental health care. The writing groups commenced in 2017, in several culture and medical care venues in Copenhagen, and were conducted by a professional author-facilitator in collaboration with a mental health care professional.