Reader · Healing
Healing with words
The right book, at the right moment, can be like medicine. After a master's degree in psychology and a lifetime of reading, Aslı Perker brings literature's healing power to a single question: which book is good for which feeling?
A book for your mood
Bibliotherapy recommendationsIf you're dazed by the loss of someone you love, you may need a book that reminds you it's possible to rise again.
If you've just parted from someone you love, a story that carries the weight of that first day with you.
If your mind won't quiet down, a reminder of how simple and reachable happiness can be.
When things beyond your control wear you down, a 2,000-year-old guide to the freedom within.
When everything is too fast; a calm philosophy of life that teaches you to pause and feel the wind.
If you dwell too much on what everyone thinks; the story of becoming free by letting go.
These are a starting point — bibliotherapy takes shape around each reader's own story. More mood-and-book pairings coming soon.
What is bibliotherapy?
In briefBibliotherapy is the art of meeting a feeling or a season of life with the right book to accompany it. It is not a diagnosis or a treatment, but a warm kind of guidance about how reading holds us and helps us heal.
For Aslı Perker, writing and reading have always been ways of healing — in Soufflé, grief; in Help Me, loneliness; in the philosophy series, simplicity and stillness. This page is for readers who follow that same question: how do words keep us standing?
Bibliotherapy Podcast
Aslı PerkerIn Bibliotherapy, Aslı Perker looks to books for remedies to readers' troubles: reading recommendations for anyone seeking solace in this hectic world. Listen on your favourite platform.
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