Tag Archives: bibliotherapy

Got a Problem? Call a Poet

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2023

Tragedy, it turns out, is a powerful literary form for dealing with posttraumatic fear.

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Bookshops as Warehouses of Explosives

By Robin Bates | Published: June 14, 2022

Morley’s novel “The Haunted Bookstore” is a powerful advertisement for reading.

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Literature, the Best Medicine

By Robin Bates | Published: October 20, 2021

A Guardian article is filled with instances of literature alleviating the suffering of patients suffering from mental illness.

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Literature for Transforming Lives

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2021

A new book on Literature as Transformation conducts eye-opening interviews with readers whose lives literature has changed.

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Tough Lives Need Poetry’s Toughness

By Robin Bates | Published: October 13, 2021

A new book on the psychology of life-changing lit has alerted me to some great passages.

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Jane Austen Will Cure What Ails You

By Robin Bates | Published: September 22, 2021

Jane Austen therapy has been prescribed for war vets, London civilians under attack, and people hiding out from Covid.

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How Novels Aided the World War I Effort

By Robin Bates | Published: August 30, 2021

During World War I, librarians sought to supported wounded men with fiction. Some preferred love stories to action adventure fiction.

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Bibliotherapy Is Having a Moment

By Robin Bates | Published: August 17, 2021

A new book indicates that bibliotherapy may be having a moment.

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The Fear of Not Reading All We Should

By Robin Bates | Published: June 24, 2015

Many readers have they anxiety that they haven’t read all the books they should have. Bibliotherapists claim that they can offer relief.

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