A wonderful portrait of Doris Lessing byFernando Vicente. This is a guest post by Marcy Sheiner,…
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Books Can Heal: Reading Meditation and Bibliotherapy
Gorgeous bookshelves and reading nook to inspire yourreading meditation! Source. This is a guest post…
A Book About Books: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
The End of Your Life Book Club: a bibliotherapeutic book for booklovers!Image source. “Why didn’t I…
Get My Bibliotherapy Book on Kindle! Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription
Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription –my ebook on bibliotherapy and the joy ofreading The project…
An Extract From Tolstoy Therapy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy for a Fear of Death
This is an extract about The Death of Ivan Ilyich from the bibliotherapy book I’m…
A Bibliotherapy Review: The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin
The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin:a lighthearted and readable approach to bibliotherapy.…
What Bibliotherapy Means to Me
Another amazing vintage library ad fromBrain Pickings! Bibliotherapy is a word I use a lot…
My Bibliotherapy Book Project! Would You Like to Get Involved?
Have books helped your happiness?Image from Pinterest Since the start of my university summer holidays,…
The Best Bloggers on Bibliotherapy & The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Jonas Jonasson living a simple life, not unlike that which Allan lives (before planting with explosives). Image…
A TED Talk on Books and Bibliotherapy: How Books Can Open Your Mind by Lisa Bu
Lisa Bu and bibliotherapy. Image from blog.ted.com In her February 2013 TED Talk, Lisa Bu begins…
How Books Help Charlie’s Mental Health in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
I posted about The Perks of Being a Wallflower and mental health last October, shortly after…
A Call for Bibliotherapy Recommendations: What books have helped you?
Bibliotherapy: read until you feel better. Image from Pinterest Dear Lovely Readers, both new and old, I’m…
Bibliotherapy and TV’s Mad Men: Frank O’Hara’s ‘Mayakovsky’ and Meditations in an Emergency
Mad Men has quickly become a favourite television show of mine, and I loved the…
Bibliotherapy & Shakespeare’s Sonnet 55: Keep Calm and Memorise Poetry
Michael Schoenfeldt’s Companion to the Sonnets, Don Paterson’s “New Commentary” and my lovely White’s Books Ltd edition of the…
Bibliotherapy for Anxiety: Active, Beautiful and Calming Fictional Books
Reading to reduce anxiety. Image source. I’d like to emphasise now that literature is not…
Bibliotherapy: Mood-Boosting and Gloomy Books For Depression
Bibliotherapy for low mood (at the seaside). Image from easier.com For depression it’s always best…
The Silver Linings Playbook: Mental Health and High-School Books
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, a wonderful story of overcoming mental…
Bibliotherapy & Reading for Wellbeing: The Novel Cure by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud
Reading for wellbeing. Image from www.marksdailyapple.com As I was casually reading the School of Life blog…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Mental Health, PTSD, and Literature
Sam, played by Emma Watson, and Charlie, who appears to have PTSD, by Logan Lerman. From guardian.co.uk…
The Faerie Queene, Healing PTSD, and Wilfred Owen
This may be a generalisation, but I’m sure that most people who read The Faerie Queene never…
Bibliotherapy and Nina Sankovitch’s “Tolstoy and the Purple Chair”
I’ve been trying to get hold of this book for so long. Whilst my blog…
Poems to Memorise for Life & Difficult Situations
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like…