Form of supportive psychotherapy in which the patient is given selected material to read

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Saint Barnabas: he cures a sick man by holding the gospel of Saint Matthew over the man's head. Etching by P. Brebiette after P. Caliari, il Veronese.

Poezie Vysočiny : Výběr básní a prózy o Vysočině / Karel Daněk.

The novel cure : an A-Z of literary remedies / Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin.

Reading for life / Philip Davis.

Bibliotherapy for bereaved children : healing reading / Eileen H. Jones.

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Poezie Vysočiny : Výběr básní a prózy o Vysočině / Karel Daněk.

Saint Barnabas: he cures a sick man by holding the gospel of Saint Matthew over the man's head. Etching by P. Brebiette after P. Caliari, il Veronese.

The novel cure : an A-Z of literary remedies / Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin.

Reading for life / Philip Davis.

Bibliotherapy for bereaved children : healing reading / Eileen H. Jones.