Bibliotherapy: The Path to a Healthy Mind

Bibliotherapy – the art of incorporating reading in one’s daily life to improve one’s mental health – has become one of the best practices adopted by people nowadays, especially in the US. This practice has actively started employing literature as a means to understand the reader’s individual self and resolve the real-life issues. Bibliotherapy employs catharsis, a term given by Aristotle, as a model for human experience and development. (1) It involves the use of books and other media to facilitate both normal mental health and other significant health problems.

Here are a few reading books that aid as a therapy to improve one’s mental health:

1. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. So now, the black holes of depression can easily be cured without drugs, so take on these drugs of reading and feel good.

                                           

2. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

Mind Over Mood, the popular book by Greenberger D & Padesky C, teaches people skills to conquer depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems and helps them win mental health.

                                               

3. Healing from Depression: 12 Weeks to a Better Mood: a Body, Mind, and Spirit Recovery Program

Douglas Bloch’s 12-week program combines his inspirational story with a comprehensive manual on how to diagnose and treat depression and thus offers a new hope and practical strategies to overcome the debilitating condition.

                                       

Hope these books were of some help to you! If you can add more on the list, let us know in the comments.