Reading contributes to the welfare of the people, and say not only we endured book: the claim psychotherapists. In 1930 Dr. William Menninger had invented the bibliotherapy, convinced that the books could promote the welfare of patients psyche.
photo © 2010 Shelley Rodrigo may provide for a healthy reading, usually a literary classic. In this article psychiatrist Andrea Bolognesi suggests eg the depressed, a homeopathic treatment based Bartleby, the Scrivener Melville and Goncharov's Oblomov to the despondent, to stress,
Memories of Marcus Aurelius and The letters of Seneca to Lucilius
- the hypochondriacs, the dark evil Giuseppe Berto and The path through the woods Adalbert Stifter
- possessive parents, the de song dedicated to the children of Gibran The Prophet
- adolescents with communication problems with his father, the Kafka's Letter to His Father women with a desire to escape or surrender
- Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina or A Doll's House.
- But the narrative can help everyone, because it is a empathy training: it says a 2006 study conducted by two psychologists at the University of Toronto, Raymond Mar and Keith Oatley (
- here you can read a their subsequent publication, in English), in which the exposure occurred the reading of fiction determine the performance of subjects in a test on empathy. How can I become more empathetic reading a book in solitude? When we are immersed in reading, we meet the characters of the story and we identify ourselves in them, trying to understand their characteristics and to predict the moves. In the unfolding of the story, we discover if our initial assumptions were correct or not and accumulate experience. In reality it is not possible (although we'd like!) Who think they know everything and others do, but the training acquired by reading makes us better able to understand and identify with them, improving our social skills: merely bookworms ...
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