Literary Analysis on many levels

When we read deeply, we analyze not only the book in hand, but also the the writer's point of view in addition to our own as it rubs up against the writer's.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/26/move-over-freud-literary-fiction-is-the-best-therapy

Empathetic Response Enhanced

http://blog.theliteracysite.com/fiction-readers/?utm_source=kc&utm_medium=paid-affiliate&utm_content=link_GOIrhw&utm_campaign=fiction-readers

School of Life Books as Therapy

http://booksastherapy.com/

Lapidus, the writing for wellbeing organisation

http://www.lapidus.org.uk/

Words Work Well Scotland bibliotherapy examples

http://wordsworkwellscotland.co.uk/lapidus_tool/examples-of-bibliotherapy/

Reading 6 minutes a day lowers heart rate

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/5070874/Reading-can-help-reduce-stress.html

The Reading Agency worked in partnership with the Society of Chief Librarians and the Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians on the campaign, which is funded by Arts Council England and the Wellcome Trust.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/12/book-an-appointment-doctors-to-prescribe-novels-in-new-scheme

Poetry not prozac

http://thereaderonline.co.uk/2012/10/17/professor-philip-davis-poetry-not-prozac-depression-and-the-reading-revolution/

One woman self treats post partum depression with books

http://www.empowher.com/depression/content/bibliotherapy-reading-list-relief-depression?page=0,2

BTT biblio telephone therapy a success

http://www.thepsychiatry.com/feasibility-and-acceptability-of-bibliotherapy-and-telephone-sessions-for-the-treatment-of-late-life-anxiety-disorders/

Excellent bibliography on Words Work Well Scotland

http://wordsworkwellscotland.co.uk/lapidus_tool/biblio-therapeutic-uses-of-reading-and-writing/

Bibliotherapy in Scotland

http://wordsworkwellscotland.co.uk/ted-bowman-gives-talk-on-bibliotherapy/

WebMD lists how reading might make you happier

http://blogs.webmd.com/art-of-relationships/2015/12/how-reading-might-make-you-happier.html

Bibliotherapy

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Bibliotherapy Quotes

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Free Online course in bibliotherapy

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/literature

Kate Atkinson LIFE AFTER LIFE

Fascinating application of time sequencing. The protagonist is born, lives and dies in what can best be thought of in terms of multiple realities. As the plot lines move our heroine forward on one fork, the road twists and turns and ends in quite another fork. Suspense builds concomitantly with the relief we have knowing there will be another avenue for her to explore, another version of her life to live out, however briefly.

Set in England post WW1, continuing through WW2, the war supports the random relationship we all have with death, our constant companion, and our forever subconscious knowing that our paths ultimately converge.

Depression Remedy on Ranker

http://www.ranker.com/list-of/other

Orfeo

By one of my favorite authors, Richard Powers.
Quotes:
The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

We're either hungry or dead.

Life is nothing but mutual infection. And every infecting message changes the message it infects.

Life is an escaped experiment, say the artists, and the only real safety is death.

Extensive collection of published reports on how reading heals hearts, minds and bodies

http://www.thereader.org.uk/what-we-do-and-why/research.aspx