Reading's Healing Powers...
Does reading really help one out of depression? Early this year, I posted an article about reading out of depression - where the writer wrote about how Saul Bellow's Herzog helped her out of depression. She said, "....I was able momentarily to forget my own problems and lose myself completely in the richly detailed and beautifully rendered world of the novel." Emma Thompson, an English actress, also sought refuge in reading . She claimed that she was "saved" by immersing herself in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I'm sure there are many of us who find reading therapeutic. I'm one of them *wink* Anyway, did you know there's this term called ' Bibliotherapy '? It's an expressive therapy that uses an individual's relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as therapy. The Wikipedia explains, "The basic concept behind bibliotherapy is that reading is a healing experience. It was applied to both ...