Explores the role of biblio/poetry therapy as an avenue into the spirit that can promote spirituality, perception, insight, relevancy, integration, and totality. (SR)

Presents a unifying theoretical framework for bibliotherapy, based on C. Shrodes' model of bibliotherapy and I. D. Yalom's research on therapeutic factors in group therapy. Draws research and practice implications for both individual and group therapy. (RS)

Defines and explores the functions of institutional, clinical, and developmental bibliotherapy in library service programs as responses to the interest in self-analysis and self-actualization characteristic of the 1970s. Training and certification of bibliotherapy practitioners are also discussed. (FM)

Examines the use of the poetic with respect to the technical characteristics common to various forms of brief psychotherapy. Suggests that poetry can serve as a therapeutic agent in promoting client change. Conclude with implications for practice and directions for further research. (RS)

Gives a brief report on the therapeutic value of writing in working through the grief process. Presents two poems by the author that helped him work through the loss of his mother and brother. (RS)

Provides a perspective on the integrative healing aspects of poetry. Suggests that poetry calls things together, contains things, brings things to light, and shows how things are already whole, healed, one. (RS)

Argues that within biblio/poetry therapy, self and others are invented through expressive resources inherent in language. Shows how poetic communication conveys, through texts, "transformative" transferences and countertransferences that foster creative imagination. Sees biblio/poetry therapy as a performance scene where co-tellings,…

The article presents brief reviews of 20 works of children's fiction in which a character stutters. Noted are ways authors portray such aspects of stuttering as symptomatology, causation, and treatment. (Author/DB)

Advocates use of bibliotherapy as an adjunct to counseling with stepchildren and remarried adults. Information to guide the selection and use of fiction and self-help books for children and adolescents is provided. Also mentioned are other audiences and uses for the adolescent fiction. (Author)

Discusses some theoretical considerations essential to understanding poetry's power to assist in healing mental, moral, or spiritual anguish. Presents two fundamental and contrasting notions of what a poet does, how a poem comes to be, what place a poet and poetry have in society, and what criteria determine whether a poem is art, or not. (RS)

Suggest that, emerging from a disturbance of consciousness and/or awakening of the unconscious, haiku does not lead to something, haiku is not about anything; it is a complete world, an end in itself; celebrating the present moment as a transition between psychological inattentiveness and enlightenment. (RS)

Suggests that fiction has developed as a human medium of expression to assist people in adapting to the complexities of social organization. Argues that fiction reading leads to improved problem-solving skills, a greater sense of normality, a breakup of rigid and confusing cognitive frameworks, improved socialization, and increased…

Discusses the therapeutic uses of literature and reading to children who are chronically ill or hospitalized for various reasons. (JK)

Argues that the dichotomous nature of poetry may lend itself well to the complementary structural deficits of well-defined borderline personality disordered patients. Suggests that the emotive aspects of the poem may permit the patient to engage in the work, whereas the more rational, structured aspects of the poem facilitate personality…

This article briefly reviews the history, technique, and appropriateness of bibliotherapy as a therapeutic technique. The term bibliotherapy is defined and its history outlined. The three most commonly found types of bibliotherapy (institutional, clinical, and developmental) are listed and then described according to client, therapist, and…