A Hundred Years of Bibliotherapy Healing through Books

Healing through Books: An Introduction; 1. The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Therapeutic Reading in the First World War Hospital; 2. Galsworthy's First World War Writing as Self-Care; 3. The American Library Association, 'Bibliotherapy' and the First World War ; 4. Autograph Books as Alleviation in British First World War Hospitals: A Case Study; 5. Print as Caregiving in Wartime: The Role of Australian First World War Trench and Hospital Magazines; 6. 'Return to Normalcy': American Librarians and Bibliotherapy in the Aftermath of the First World War; 7. Can There Be a Science of Bibliotherapy? Imagining Bibliotherapy and Its Uses in a Modern Hospital; 8. The Curative Value of Reading: Hospital Libraries and Literary Therapeutics in Britain, 1919-1946; 9. The Bibliotherapy Novel: Representations of Literary Caregiving and the Crisis of Print Culture, 1919-2019; 10.'I liked them a lot...but I feel like I don't know them fully?': Implications of Recent Research in Immersion and Engagement for Digital Therapeutic Reading;11. Trauma and Literature: Current Bibliotherapeutic Practices and Literary Trauma Studies in Sweden; 12. Hoping Out Loud: Creative Bibliotherapy and Wellbeing Strategies; Index