Tragedy, it turns out, is a powerful literary form for dealing with posttraumatic fear.
Tag Archives: bibliotherapy
Got a Problem? Call a Poet
Bookshops as Warehouses of Explosives
Morley’s novel “The Haunted Bookstore” is a powerful advertisement for reading.
Literature, the Best Medicine
A Guardian article is filled with instances of literature alleviating the suffering of patients suffering from mental illness.
Literature for Transforming Lives
A new book on Literature as Transformation conducts eye-opening interviews with readers whose lives literature has changed.
Tough Lives Need Poetry’s Toughness
A new book on the psychology of life-changing lit has alerted me to some great passages.
Jane Austen Will Cure What Ails You
Jane Austen therapy has been prescribed for war vets, London civilians under attack, and people hiding out from Covid.
How Novels Aided the World War I Effort
During World War I, librarians sought to supported wounded men with fiction. Some preferred love stories to action adventure fiction.
Bibliotherapy Is Having a Moment
A new book indicates that bibliotherapy may be having a moment.
The Fear of Not Reading All We Should
Many readers have they anxiety that they haven’t read all the books they should have. Bibliotherapists claim that they can offer relief.