Medicines of the Soul: Reparative Reading and the History of Bibliotherapy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 2018 English Publisher:Project MUSEJournal:Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, volume 51, pages 17-34 (eissn: 1925-5683,

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Authors: jesse_miller;

doi: 10.1353/mos.2018.0015 , 10.17613/m61n7xm3b , 10.17613/gq1q3-0bc18

Medicines of the Soul: Reparative Reading and the History of Bibliotherapy

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Abstract

This essay argues that despite its significance within the history of bibliotherapy, Samuel McChord Crothers's 1916 essay "A Literary Clinic" – in which the term "bibliotherapy" was coined – is a stranger point of origin than proponents have realized, one with implications for conceptualizing reading and its reparative uses more broadly.

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Psychiatry, History, Reading, American literature, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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