Linda Östlundh, Director, National Medical Library at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAEU has co-authored an article on bibliotherapy in the time of pandemic.

Bibliotherapy is a form of clinical or self-developing therapy where reading and discussing different types of literature can help individuals to verbalize and find solutions for negative feelings and emotions. It involves both librarians and physicians/therapists and some of the main and pioneer researchers in the field are librarians.

The paper is a collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at CMHS, led by Prof. Emmanuel Stip.

For those interested in reading more about how bibliotherapy can be of support during the pandemic, go to: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 07 December 2020.