bibliotherapy
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For less severe cases, Lewis suggests that parents start what psychologists call bibliotherapy, specifically a book called “Uncle Lightfoot Flip That Switch,” about a boy overcoming his fear of the dark.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
Because literature is more open to interpretation than straightforward advice, bibliotherapy allows us to come to our own conclusions—or perhaps no conclusion at all.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2018
Of course, there’s also something beautiful and universalizing about bibliotherapy that perhaps makes it ripe for a sociopolitical moment where many feel more and more isolated.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2018
Today, bibliotherapy takes many different forms, from literature courses run for prison inmates to reading circles for elderly people suffering from dementia.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2015
The young man had heard of none of these books prescribed by the practitioner of bibliotherapy.
From The Haunted Bookshop by Morley, Christopher
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