PART ONE:
To reiterate points made in this paper, how novels can help people overcome past traumas and psychological terrors, that is the power of great literature. Bibliotherapy does not just exist on its own, the help of licensed psychologists helping and allowing the patients to navigate themselves through the books and their lives go hand in hand. The novels prescribed, given to these individuals as a list gives them something to accomplish and check off their to do list. The power of a good novel helps anyone, no matter how it was recommended to you, if your friend begged you to read or if your therapist suggested the read because you might find similarities with the plot; literature is the glue that helps put the cracks back together. That is the power of a good book, the ability for it to heal you.
Part two
- Can books help you with your traumas?
- Anecdote: Books helped me with my eating disorder.
- Books are escapism.
- Helped those in the world wars.
- Death and grievances
- Historical practice used to help wounded soldiers.
Tangerine dreams 