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Syll DubhThe idea that literature can make us emotionally and physically stronger goes back to Plato. But now book groups are proving that Shakespeare can be as beneficial as self-help guides. Blake Morrison investigates the rise of bibliotherapy
2008 reading literature bibliotherapy opinion culture books the guardian
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31 Aug 08
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an attempt to see whether reading can alleviate pain or mental distress
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Crochet or bridge might serve equally well if it were merely a matter of being in a group
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"People who don't respond to conventional therapy, or don't have access to it, can externalise their feelings by engaging with a fictional character, or be stimulated by the rhythms of poetry."
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Plato said that the muses gave us the arts not for "mindless pleasure" but "as an aid to bringing our soul-circuit, when it has got out of tune, into order and harmony with itself"
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just as homeopathy is regarded with suspicion in conventional medicine, so bibliotherapy is bound to strike sceptics as a form of quack medicine. But considerable research has been carried out over the past 20 years which seeks to prove the healing capacity of the arts in general and literature in particular
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reading might be therapeutic in a variety of ways, not least in easing depression: "the pleasure of escape into a parallel world; the sense of control one has as a reader; and the ability to distance one's self from one's own circumstances by seeing them from without, suffered by someone else and gathered up into a nicely worked-out plot
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20 Aug 08
Sharon E. CrossanA recent article from the Guardian on the value of reading and book clubs.
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RSC WalesA recent article from the Guardian on the value of reading and book clubs.
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07 Aug 08
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