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The latest best-selling novels might be in your stack of beach reads, but could reading them benefit your mental health? That's the idea behind bibliotherapy, the concept of reading as a therapeutic method to improve our well-being.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cheu says literary bibliotherapy works because it allows readers to use stories to figure out how to repair their own dysfunctional narratives.

Brandon Sanderson’s writing helped me in this way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Care to elaborate?