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. ...more

The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
Man's Search for Meaning
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading
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What My Bones Know
The Rabbit Listened
The Scar
The Gifts of Imperfection
When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry
A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma
Bibliotherapy
My Mouth Is A Volcano: A Picture Book About Interrupting
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The Way I Feel
Jenifer Lewis
Ain't no shame in my game. This is what too much stress looks like. Y'all come on and take this ride with me. ...more
Jenifer Lewis, Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

Howard Thurman
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 ...more
Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

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Café Bibliothérapie Café Bibliothérapie is a social #LitTherapy book club that pairs fiction with non-fiction to enc…more
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For all of our longtime favorites and new loves along the bibliotherapy journey!
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Pasar la página Club de lectura virtual 📚 Aquí entendemos la literatura como un alivio para las mentes y cuerpos…more
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Are you reading, or have you read, fiction/non/poetry that has had a healing effect on your life…more
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