Research Catalog

Title

Read for your life : literature as a life support system / Joseph Gold.

Author

Gold, Joseph, 1933-2018

Publication

Markham, Ont. ; Allston, Mass. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2001.

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Description

xx, 380 p. : port.; 23 cm.

Summary

Explains the importance of daily reading and how it can lead to improved mental health and personal empowerment, with recommendations for books for children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly.

Alternative Title

Literature as a life support system

Subject

• Books and reading
• Bibliotherapy
• Livres et lecture
• Bibliothérapie

Note

• "A Godwit classic paperback"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Enjoying Fiction without Guilt -- Introduction: Reading for Your Self -- Fear of Feeling: The Conspiracy Against Reading -- How to Read for Your Life -- Reading Against the Tube -- Reading For Time -- The Past -- Reading, Feeling and Emotion -- The Truth that Lies Ahead -- Growing Through Reading -- Literature and Human Development -- Growing Up Sane -- Problems, Crises and Coping -- Marriage and Union Dues -- Separation, Divorce and Other Opportunities -- Everyone Loses Some of the Time -- Reading in Our Time -- Pushups or Pushovers: It's All in Your Mind -- Grow Old Along with Yourself -- Not Funny at the Time! -- Subjects, Objects and Rejects -- Once upon a time-In School -- The End of the Beginning -- Bibliotherapy: Another Conclusion But Not An End in Itself -- Literature in Professional Training -- Questionnaire 1: Reader Response -- Questionnaire 2: Reading Selection Self Guide -- Behind This Book-An Afterword.

ISBN

1550416251

LCCN

^^2002489931

OCLC

• 46703304
• SCSB-12567610

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library