Episode 16: Bibliotherapy

Good Librations podcast episode 16 Bibliotherapy

Inscribed above the entrance library chamber belonging to King Ramses the II were the words 'The house for healing of the soul.'

So described humanity's relationship with reading as a therapeutic practice, both in 1300BCE and today.

Listen along as we discover how reading can heal more than just our souls, why we have such a connection to stories and words, and what books your hosts turn to for comfort and catharsis. 

Find out all this and more in this month's episode of Good Librations.

 

Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

A Recipe for Family by Tori Haschka

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Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

State Library of Victoria: Bibliotherapy

Paper on Bibliotherapy

Bibliotherapy Australia

Very Well Mind: What is bibliotherapy?

Book Therapy: Ask the bibliotherapist

Digital Commons: Children's Responses to Storybook Reading 

Kitty Flanagan YouTube link

 

Books/written works:

  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Those Hamilton Sisters by Averil Kenny
  • The Switch by Beth O’Leary
  • The Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
  • 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  • The Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Movies/shows:

  • New Girl
  • Kath & Kim

 

Notable people:

  • Weird Al Yankovic (song: Word Crimes)
  • Peter Kay

Shelf-obsessed (further reading)

  • Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
  • The unexpected gift of trauma: the path to posttraumatic growth by Dr Edith Shiro with Linda Sparrowe
  • The runaway's diary by James Patterson and Emily Raymond
  • I'm sorry you feel that way by Rebecca Wait
  • Little stories of your life: find your voice, share your world and tell your story words and photos by Laura Pashby
  • Self-care for adult children of emotionally immature parents: honour your emotions, nurture yourself, and live with confidence by Lindsay C. Gibson
  • Black girl unlimited: the remarkable story of a teenage wizard by Echo Brown
  • The accidental tour guide: adventures in life and death by Mary Moody
  • How it feels to float by Helena Fox
  • Penguin Bloom: the odd little bird who saved a family by Cameron Bloom & Bradley Trevor Greive
  • Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  • Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
  • The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

   

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