“It just gives people hope”: A qualitative inquiry into the lived experience of the Harry Potter world in mental health recovery

Examining the superpower-based representation of eating disorder illness and recovery with data mining of The Art of Starving

“…Seventy-ve percent of readers identi ed with the superpower-based eating disorder representation. This resonates with Tribe et al (30) nding that identi cation with a ctional character is not inhibited by fantasy elements. Broad reader identi cation with the superpower-based eating disorder representation is in line with previous research nding that engaging in eating disorder-oriented behaviours is perceived by people with these conditions as vehicles for achieving superhuman power (38,39,40).…”

“…Troscianko (7) found ction books thematically unrelated to eating disorders to be therapeutically bene cial. Additionally, reader identi cation with a ctional character is not dependent on maximizing all dimensions of character-reader similarity (30,35,36). Tribe et al (30) found readers with mental illness can identify with ctional characters possessing magical powers, indicating that identi cation and its impact can occur in fantasy books.…”

“…Given the expanding readership of fantasy books, examining the impact of fantasy books about eating disorders would be an appropriate avenue to achieving this and addressing the eating disorder burden (28). Fantasy books have been found to promote the lessening of mental illness symptoms for other conditions, pointing to their potential therapeutic e cacy in the eating disorder context (29,30). This investigation could also contribute to reducing the burden of these conditions due to the broadly damaging impact of eating disorder-themed ction books (7).…”

The impact of school-based creative bibliotherapy interventions on child and adolescent mental health: a systematic review and realist synthesis protocol

“…Empirical research has shown that fiction is processed differently from non-fiction, with a respective difference in brain activation; for more on neural mechanisms of change see, e.g. Tribe et al [ 22 ]. It is proposed that fiction improves our ability to understand other people’s perspectives, due to the way our brains process and comprehend narratives [ 23 ].…”

Bibliotherapy as an adjuvant tool in the treatment of emotional challenges in early schoolchildren

“…Estos elementos se unen a otras definiciones acuñadas desde las ciencias de la comunicación, que la sitúan como una actividad terapéutica caracterizada por el uso de textos verbales y no verbales, la producción de texto, así como el empleo de diversas formas de expresión (RiestraCamacho et al, 2023). Especialmente en la actualidad han ganado en relevancia los formatos multimedia, el uso de plataformas, de las redes sociales y otros recursos electrónicos como los e-book, adaptados a los principios de la biblioterapia(Jent et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2022;Noruzi et al, 2023;Welzel et al., 2021;Xu et al, 2023).Es menester mencionar que el proceso de desarrollo de la biblioterapia es uno multidisciplinario, pues toma como base la psicología para comprender las conductas, procesos psicológicos y emocionales de los participantes, las características socio-comunitarias o contextuales, por un lado(Ahmedi, 2023;Eddy et al, 2022;Hoover et al, 2023;Tribe et al, 2021). Por otro, se sustenta en la bibliotecología para evaluar y seleccionar el material bibliográfico para implementarlo a través de lecturas dirigidas y discusiones con los participantes(Bain, 2022;Hoover et al, 2023;Rottenberg, 2022;O'Donohue, 2023).En definitiva, los pasos fundamentales del proceso, como la lectura dirigida y la discusión posterior o anterior en grupo, son los que favorecen la interacción entre los participantes y las motiva a expresar lo que sienten, sus angustias y ansiedades diversas.…”