Reading and Mental Health

Chapter One. Introduction; Josie Billington.- PART ONE; READING AND HEALTH: MEDICINE TO LITERATURE, LITERATURE TO THERAPY.- Chapter Two. Comfort in a Whirlwind; Christopher Dowrick.- Chapter Three. The Sonnet Cure: Renaissance Poetics to Romantic Prosaics; Grace Farrington and Philip Davis.- Chapter Four. The Victorian Novel: Laying the Foundations for 'Bibliotherapy'; Grace Farrington, Philip Davis and Josie Billington.- PART TWO; PRACTICES.- Chapter Five. Reading for Depression/Mental Health; Clare Ellis, Eleanor McCann, Anne Line Dalsgеrd.- Chapter Six. Reading for Dementia; Katie Clarke, Charlotte Weber, Susan McLaine.- Chapter Seven. Reading in Prisons; Alexis McNay, Charlie Darby-Villis, Ann Walmsley.- Chapter Eight. Reading in Clinical Contexts; Grace Farrington, Kate McDonnell and Helen Cook.- PART THREE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES.- Chapter Nine. Qualitative Methodologies I; Jude Robinson and Josie Billington, Ellie Gray and Gundi Kiemle, Melissa Chapple.- Chapter Ten. Qualitative Methods II; Josie Billington and Philip Davis, Mette Steenberg, Grace Farrington and Fiona Magee, Thor Magnus Tangeraas, Kelda Green.- Chapter Eleven. Linguistic Approaches; Sofia Lampropulou and Kremena Koleva, Josie Billington, Philip Davis, Gavin Brookes and Kevin Harvey.- Chapter Twelve. Quantitative Methodologies; Rhiannon Corcoran, Josie Billington and Megan Watkins, Mette Steenberg, Charlotte Christianson, Nikolai Ladegaard, Don Kuiken.- Chapter Thirteen. Reading: Brain, Mind and Body; Philip Davis, Rhiannon Corcoran, Rick Rylance and Adam Zeman, David Kidd, Christophe de Bezenac.- PART FOUR; TOWARDS A THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF READING AND HEALTH.- Chapter Fourteen. Reading and Psychiatric Practices; David Fearnley and Grace Farrington.- Chapter Fifteen. Reading and Psychology I, 'Reading Minds: Fiction and its Relation to the Mental Worlds of Self and Others'; Rhiannon Corcoran and Keith Oatley.- Chapter Sixteen Reading and Psychology II, 'Metaphoricity, Inexpressible Realizations, and Expressive Enactment'; Don Kuiken.- Chapter Seventeen. Reading and Psychoanalysis; Adam Phillips, Philip Davis.- PART FIVE; READING AND HEALTH: IMPLEMENTATION - BARRIERS AND ENABLERS.- Chapter Eighteen. Reading and Mental Health; Ellie Gray, Grace Farrington, Mette Steenberg.- Chapter Nineteen. Reading and Dementia; Martin Orrell and Tom Dening, Nusrat Husain, Sally, Rimkeit, Gill Claridge, Dalice Sim.- Chapter Twenty. Reading in Prisons; Fiona Magee.- Chapter Twenty One. Reading in a Clinical Context Reading and Chronic Pain; Kate McDonnell.