bibliotherapy

form of supportive psychotherapy in which the patient is given selected material to read
Intangible academic_discipline Q794611
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bibliotherapy

Summary

bibliotherapy is an academic discipline[1]. bibliotherapy draws 291 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #248 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • bibliotherapy's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • bibliotherapy's instance of is recorded as type of psychotherapy[4].
  • bibliotherapy is a type of psychotherapy[5].
  • bibliotherapy is a type of expressive therapy[6].
  • bibliotherapy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bibliotherapy[7].
  • bibliotherapy's described at URL is recorded as https://www.popsugar.com/health/bibliotherapist-interview-49440271[8].
  • bibliotherapy's facet of is recorded as library science[9].
  • bibliotherapy's described by source is recorded as Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur[10].
  • bibliotherapy's has effect is recorded as emotional self-regulation[11].
  • bibliotherapy's different from is recorded as therapeutic writing[12].
  • bibliotherapy's uses is recorded as storytelling[13].
  • bibliotherapy's uses is recorded as poetry[14].
  • bibliotherapy's practiced by is recorded as bibliotherapist[15].
  • bibliotherapy's significant person is recorded as Benjamin Rush[16].
  • bibliotherapy's significant person is recorded as Sadie Peterson Delaney[17].
  • bibliotherapy's significant person is recorded as Arleen McCarty Hynes[18].
  • bibliotherapy's named by is recorded as Samuel McChord Crothers[19].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include academic discipline[3] and type of psychotherapy[4]. Recorded subclass of include psychotherapy[5] and expressive therapy[6].

Why It Matters

bibliotherapy draws 291 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #248 of 1,010).[2] bibliotherapy has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] bibliotherapy is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . dbnl.org. Retrieved . dbnl.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bibliotherapy_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{bibliotherapy}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bibliotherapy}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 15h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of library science
    Named by Samuel McChord Crothers
    Instance of
    Subclass of psychotherapy, expressive therapy
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 18817, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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