Reading is an opportunity for escape from the everyday, but it’s also an opportunity for reflection and mindfulness-a way to run a flashlight around in our thoughts. We have been enduring a long, dark night of the soul, and we need the uplift of a good book now more than ever. Over 3,000 years ago, the library at Thebes was inscribed with the motto “A house of healing for the soul.” The notion that reading is a mental salve is an old one. In World War I, soldiers suffering “shell shock” (what we now call PTSD) were given books to help ease their psychic wounds.
Sigmund Freud used bibliotherapy on his anxious patients no doubt he recommended books on cigars. The book can be anything-novels, poetry, the Cambridge World History of Food, 50 Shades of Grey, or philosophy. Bibliotherapy is the practice of reading to heal the mind and soul.
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