Bibliotherapy: What is and how to help get rid of stress and problems

As a tool to restore emotional health, the library took a new wave of popularity in the summer of 2025. Everything began with the stories of the people published in foreign media, where the books “help to find something in themselves” and “what to do what should work. His words were confirmed by the researchers who are of great interest to studying in different countries of the world, including Russia for the second year (82%).

The idea that literature and psychology can go hand in hand was caused by ancient times. Pharaoh Ramses II said to the library, “Pharmacy for the soul.” And in the Xviii century, the treatment with books was widely used in psychiatric hospitals in Europe. Bibli therapy work in Russia actively participated in the XIX-XX centuries. Nikolai Rubakin and Vladimir Bekhterev made an important contribution to the development of the direction. They were looking for a connection between a person’s mental trauma and a writer or job choice. And they were sure that the word could improve any disorder.

Centuries later, people’s desires have not changed, they also want to be mentally healthy and under stress. Particularly for Peopletalk, clinical psychologist Margarita Alekseeva explained how bibli therapy works in modern realities and how to organize a therapeutic technique without leaving home.

Margarita Alekseeva, Clinical Psychologist

In the age of clip thinking and social networks, we really forgot how to read the feeling of reading: slow, careful, thoughtful. However, it doesn’t matter how we try to change them with a smartphone, but the consumption information remains in the most popular way.

What is Bibliutherapy?

The form of psychotherapy in which the correctly selected literature helps to improve the psychological state: Reduce stress and anxiety, experience complex emotions and find internal balance. In daily life, this can only be the habit of reading time to read with a pen to mark important words and sentences that only react in the shower and allow you to look deeply.

How does Bibliotherapy work?

Slow reading includes almost unused areas of the brain’s complexity. We focus, we activate pleasure attention, we learn to keep the thought. The prefrontal shell, which is responsible for controlling and making decisions, begins to “be crushed”. And this is not a metaphor, it is a very special neuropsychological benefit.

The hated school question is suddenly valuable, because we do not only follow the plot, but also take every copy and a sentence to find ourselves. It is important to answer questions: which thoughts and emotions cause the text, what is associated with what.

Helps construction and contact with others. When you share what you read with another person – it strengthens your connection with your emotions, not re -expression, but with your emotions. Already in a relationship in which he becomes a habit of me and stickers, an area for a real dialogue emerges. The book, for example, becomes an opportunity about the important thing that the character is very similar to you. Thus, the interlocutor knows your inner world better, and sees the pain points that are difficult to say directly.

Does speed reading increase productivity?

Against the background of fashion for productivity, there are more and more courses for the “speed reading önemli promising to make you the second Julia Caesar. The expression of the heating expressions is approximately the same: Read in 15 minutes, quickly remember, be three heads above the others. But the problem is: Our brain does not work in this mode.

How to make biblitapi at home?

1. Choose an interesting book, not what causes negative thoughts or should be read urgently.

2. Turn off warnings and devices that emit noise are more comfortable.

Read at least 5-10 pages per day. Better loudly.

4. Take notes, emphasize thoughts, do not rush.

5. Share observations with your loved ones.

And today we recommend that you choose a suitable book with a therapeutic effect from our choice to start psychological practice.