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Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is an expressive therapy that involves the reading of specific texts with the purpose of healing. It uses an individual's relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as therapy. Bibliotherapy is often combined with writing therapy. It has been shown to be effective in the treatment of depression. These results have been shown to be long-lasting.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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― Books and You
― Books and You
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We are all of us indebted to a vast host of anonymous persons without whom some necessity would not have been available, some good which came to us, we would have missed. It is not too farfetched to say that living is itself an act of interdependence. . .However self-sufficient we are, our strength is always being supplied by others unknown to us whose paths led them down our street or by our house at the moment that we needed the light they could give. . . It is the way of life; it is one of th
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― Meditations of the Heart
― Meditations of the Heart
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This is a discussion group for discussing books to be used in responsive librarianship.
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