Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of supportive psychotherapy in which carefully selected reading materials are used to assist a subject in solving personal problems or for other therapeutic purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An expressive therapy based on an individual's
relationship to the content ofbooks ,poetry , etc.
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Examples
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I will go ahead and call it bibliotherapy, which acknowledges the intent of the reader, not the writer.
Necessary Poetry : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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She never uses the word "bibliotherapy", but I do hope many parents take her advice and read to their kids.
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She never uses the word "bibliotherapy", but I do hope many parents take her advice and read to their kids.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The House in the Night leaves you wondering if the Caldecott judges wanted to find the best book, or just to administer a dose of bibliotherapy to a nation that needs it.
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But this book has endured in part because it is not bibliotherapy but a good story.
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The House in the Night leaves you wondering if the Caldecott judges wanted to find the best book, or just to administer a dose of bibliotherapy to a nation that needs it.
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Incredibly moving Reading Summit presentation from the International Board on Books for Young People, who practice bibliotherapy: reading to traumatized children all over the world (war zones, disaster areas, kids who've been abused).
Boing Boing 2009
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The House in the Night leaves you wondering if the Caldecott judges wanted to find the best book, or just to administer a dose of bibliotherapy to a nation that needs it.
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But this book has endured in part because it is not bibliotherapy but a good story.
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Treatments include grammar and language training and bibliotherapy.
Cthulhu Explains it All EliRabett 2010
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