Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Morley's The Haunted Bookshop, 1919 origin of bibliotherapy?

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2010/11/22/a-feeling-for-books/

Librarians and library school faculty variously attribute the origins of bibliotherapy to the Oct. 15, 1939 Library Journal article, “Can There Be a Science of Bibliotherapy?” or to Christopher Morley’s The Haunted Bookshop (1919).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Bookshop