Reading in Community: What Book Clubs and Group Bibliotherapy Have Taught Me
For a large part of my life, especially when I was younger, reading was the most private thing I did.
Bibliotherapy with Bijal Shah
Hi, my name is Bijal Shah and I am a bibliotherapist and founder of Book Therapy (a bibliotherapy and literary curation practice: www.booktherapy.io). I'm also the author of the book, Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading (https://amzn.to/4hat5Uz).
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Horror and The Anxious Mind
It sounds like terrible advice: if you are anxious, read something that will frighten you.
The Underrated Literary Intervention We Need to Take More Seriously
Why reading might be the most under-used tool in preventative health.
The Neuroscience of Reading Fiction
How Narrative Transportation Shapes Empathy and Emotional Regulation
How Different Genres Are Used in Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy rests on the premise that different kinds of reading do different kinds of psychological work.
The Books My Clients Keep Coming Back To
Books can be enjoyable, pleasurable even or they can make you want to shout the title out from the rooftops and tell everyone you know about them.
Bibliotherapy Events at Book Therapy
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Therapeutic Reading Across Cultures
The Practice of Bibliotherapy Through Ancient and Modern Times
What I’ve Learned from 7 Years of Matching People to Books
My bibliotherapy practice always starts with a simple question to my clients: what do you need from a book right now?
The Right Book Can Change Everything - Introducing the Book Prescriptions and Reading Companion App
An A–Z Book Prescription Guide to Books that Heal and A Space to Journal All Your Reflections
Reading As An Intimate Experience
Reading as an Intimate Experience
Who Gets to Belong: A View from Literature
Personal Identity and the Borders of the Self
A Bibliotherapist’s Guide to Summer Reading That Restores and Replenishes
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Transformative Reading: Between Comfort and Disruption
How books unsettle, reveal, and reshape the self
What We Lose When We Stop Reading Deeply
On Slow Reading, Bibliotherapy, and a Vanishing Form of Attention
The Anti-Ageing Power of Art and Literature
Literature as longevity practice
Mental Health Awareness Week: 50% off with code READ
Discover how reading and bibliotherapy can support your mental health and wellbeing: Enjoy 50% off all courses, sessions, consultations, and book prescriptions this week .
Is Reading Still A Choice? Or Is It Becoming A Necessity?
A Bibliotherapy Perspective
One Woman's Journey to Rethinking Money
A conversation with Sarah Bennett-Nash, former financial services executive and author of More Money, More Life, a book exploring the psychology of money, wealth-building and financial freedom.
Do You Need a Fiction Prescription?
An Origin Story of Book Therapy in San Francisco penned by Monica Cafferky for Best Magazine