The healing power of books and libraries

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Letters: Libraries are a profound resource that can use bibliotherapy to support people with fragile mental health, writes John Duffy

, 4 September), I endorse what you and Ann say about the effectiveness of such schemes. I previously had a long career in social and community work, and felt I was most useful as a bibliotherapist.

 

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anilachanna Dear Guardian, I am already supporting you. Direct debit every month for the last year, two years!

Sadly they will be first in line...again..for cuts when councils look to save money they've overspent on covid measures. Unless Tory govt is pursuaded to fund all councils properly.austerity

LennyHenry I love libraries & miss studying....

Libraries bestow therapy in so many beautiful ways libraries TuesdayThoughts

I like a reference book or a well written manual. Although recently The Wretched Earth was an interesting read as was Fascism -a short intro. Two Minds about the octopus loved that. Fascism -a warning. Currently I'm listening to Fantasyland. For fun it's porn & recipes.

I love libraries. They made books available to me when I was a kid. Without libraries I would never have had the chance to read them. I was from a poor family. So how more libraries the better.

They're fucking closed!!

The time the center-right guardian starts saying that reading is for the fraught of mental capability, you truly know they have lost their frooockkkkiiiing mind? Reading was always for the critical, wanner to learn about the wilder world, the curious. Guardian lost their touch?

Elite minds are built from books

Libraryjeanius one for you!

yet so many have closed

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