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Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription
When you're struggling with fears, worries, challenging situations or difficult moods, you may well turn to therapy, self-help, alternative therapies or medication. However, the solution may already be in your home, stacked neatly on your bookshelves.
There is a book out there to help everyone get through difficult feelings and situations in life; you just need a little help finding it.
There is a book out there to help everyone get through difficult feelings and situations in life; you just need a little help finding it.
78 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 27, 2013
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November 23, 2022
O carte foarte interesantă - scrisă într-un mod clar, atractiv - ce poate fi privită ca o introducere în biblioterapie.
Autoarea a trăit stări de anxietate (și alte tipuri de stări dificile) ca urmare a unei tulburări de stress postraumatic (PTSD - Pos Traumatic Stress Disorder). Pe lângă opțiunile clasice de tratament, utilizate cu succes, de un real folos au fost, în mod complementar, cărțile atent alese spre lectură.
Cartea scrisă de Lucy Horner are cam 75 de pagini de informație propriu-zisă, poate fi parcursă lejer în câteva ore dintr-o zi, iar beneficiile lecturii ei pot fi deosebite pentru oricine.
În carte se face des trimitere, pentru mai multe detalii/articole/liste cu cărți către site-ul https://www.tolstoytherapy.com/ al autoarei cărții, un site foarte și frumos conceput și realizat.
În fine, ar mai fi de menționat faptul că ediția Kindle are un preț foarte accesibil, iar livrarea cărții pe dispozitiv(e) - telefon, tabletă, desktop / cont de utilizator Kindle - este, desigur, instantanee.
Autoarea a trăit stări de anxietate (și alte tipuri de stări dificile) ca urmare a unei tulburări de stress postraumatic (PTSD - Pos Traumatic Stress Disorder). Pe lângă opțiunile clasice de tratament, utilizate cu succes, de un real folos au fost, în mod complementar, cărțile atent alese spre lectură.
Cartea scrisă de Lucy Horner are cam 75 de pagini de informație propriu-zisă, poate fi parcursă lejer în câteva ore dintr-o zi, iar beneficiile lecturii ei pot fi deosebite pentru oricine.
În carte se face des trimitere, pentru mai multe detalii/articole/liste cu cărți către site-ul https://www.tolstoytherapy.com/ al autoarei cărții, un site foarte și frumos conceput și realizat.
În fine, ar mai fi de menționat faptul că ediția Kindle are un preț foarte accesibil, iar livrarea cărții pe dispozitiv(e) - telefon, tabletă, desktop / cont de utilizator Kindle - este, desigur, instantanee.
January 3, 2023
Lucy Horner has a clear, clever, and light way to take you by the hands to walk through the beauty of reading. She is concise and objective whilst taking the time for what matters the most to the reader. A pleasant read.
January 1, 2015
Two good things about the book:
1. Lucy Horner loves literature/reading in general and you can feel and experience that in every sentence of the "Tolstoy Therapy". I love it when the author is passionate about the things they talk and write about. Example? "Fiction can guide us and reassure us through even the most difficult transitions in life, as, after all, what else is fiction other than a compilation of other people's experience and lessons learned?"
2. I've found so many recommendations, so many books I want to tackle and read and discuss now. Quite intrigued to have a "Fiction Prescription"-list on hand with some really interesting-sounding titles.
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Two negative things I have to mention:
1. I question the author's ability to understand and define what a mental illness really means for a person's emotional and physical stability (And I know that Lucy Horner battled PTSD). She talks about "control of emotions" (f.e.: "Realize that with practice you can choose to control your emotions, without giving in to emotional repression.") and about giving life a meaning ("Life needs meaning.") which is quite hard and impossible for people who really are mentally challenged with a psychosis, neurosis, any kind of emotional instability. But: She mentions at the beginning that bibliotherapy isn't a substitute for talking to a physician and/or a psychiatrist or therapist. Still: I expect statements like that in a self-help-book for people who want to loose 20kg of weight, not in an analysis of bibliotherapy.
2. The writing style reminds me of first- or second-year student-papers. Not a bad thing, it's easy to read and understand, it's a quick, maybe even helpful read for someone who searches for books to help them with their emotional trouble. It's just too superficial, too anecdotal for my liking. And I'm not a big fan of notions like "[...] to write about something in a purposeful way."...
[/Rant]
1. Lucy Horner loves literature/reading in general and you can feel and experience that in every sentence of the "Tolstoy Therapy". I love it when the author is passionate about the things they talk and write about. Example? "Fiction can guide us and reassure us through even the most difficult transitions in life, as, after all, what else is fiction other than a compilation of other people's experience and lessons learned?"
2. I've found so many recommendations, so many books I want to tackle and read and discuss now. Quite intrigued to have a "Fiction Prescription"-list on hand with some really interesting-sounding titles.
[Rant]
Two negative things I have to mention:
1. I question the author's ability to understand and define what a mental illness really means for a person's emotional and physical stability (And I know that Lucy Horner battled PTSD). She talks about "control of emotions" (f.e.: "Realize that with practice you can choose to control your emotions, without giving in to emotional repression.") and about giving life a meaning ("Life needs meaning.") which is quite hard and impossible for people who really are mentally challenged with a psychosis, neurosis, any kind of emotional instability. But: She mentions at the beginning that bibliotherapy isn't a substitute for talking to a physician and/or a psychiatrist or therapist. Still: I expect statements like that in a self-help-book for people who want to loose 20kg of weight, not in an analysis of bibliotherapy.
2. The writing style reminds me of first- or second-year student-papers. Not a bad thing, it's easy to read and understand, it's a quick, maybe even helpful read for someone who searches for books to help them with their emotional trouble. It's just too superficial, too anecdotal for my liking. And I'm not a big fan of notions like "[...] to write about something in a purposeful way."...
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August 12, 2014
"Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription" is an engaging nonfiction book detailing the power of fiction reading.
Author Lucy Horner illustrates the healing potential of literature with a smart and insightful compilation of scientific studies, quotes from readers, and personal reflections, which highlight the theme: "...literature can teach us how to live our lives the best we can, guiding us in the same way as if a computer simulation would teach us to fly a plane."
There are also reading suggestions for the different challenges the individual reader may be facing, making "Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription," a meaningful tool to help facilitate a happier and healthier emotional life.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning the art of fiction reading to not only better themselves, but others as well.
Author Lucy Horner illustrates the healing potential of literature with a smart and insightful compilation of scientific studies, quotes from readers, and personal reflections, which highlight the theme: "...literature can teach us how to live our lives the best we can, guiding us in the same way as if a computer simulation would teach us to fly a plane."
There are also reading suggestions for the different challenges the individual reader may be facing, making "Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription," a meaningful tool to help facilitate a happier and healthier emotional life.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning the art of fiction reading to not only better themselves, but others as well.
March 29, 2019
Lezen is essentieel voor mij om geestelijk gezond te blijven.
June 9, 2024
Very good read!
July 19, 2024
nice little read
It provided me with some good information. I want you to start a bibliotherapy book group and this book is going to help me do it.
It provided me with some good information. I want you to start a bibliotherapy book group and this book is going to help me do it.
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