Summarizing and Paraphrasing Practice
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1. The content that we encounter online can help facilitate powerful psychological realisations and collective change. Bibliotherapy is a broad umbrella term for any type of directed reading (fiction or nonfiction) to help with psychological issues (Sevinc, 2019). While books can be a powerful therapeutic tool, the number of people who continue to enjoy the traditional print novel is on the decline, especially amongst younger generations (e.g. Clark & Goff, 2020). There are those among us who are still voracious readers but, collectively, more time is spent on newer media forms like film, television, videogames and bite-sized videos and captions in our social media feeds. (Nair, et al)
2. Despite the clear potential for the use of literature and creative work to positively influence behaviour and psychological wellbeing, there is little research that examines the use of fictional bibliotherapy. The more frequently utilised and researched genre of ‘self-help’ books have been critiqued as being problematically gendered, focusing on individual flaws women are responsible for fixing in themselves, whilst not addressing the underlying social context which perpetuates insecurity (Riley et al., 2019).
3. All of them allow us to experience pleasures specific to intentional navigation: orienting ourselves by landmarks, mapping a space mentally to match our experience, and admiring the juxtapositions and changes in perspective that derive from moving through an intricate environment. (Murray, page 129)
4. As I move forward, I feel a sense of powerfulness, of significant action, that is tied to my pleasure in the unfolding story. In an adventure game this pleasure also feels like winning. But in a narrative experience not structured as a win-lose contest the movement forward has the feeling of enacting a meaningful experience both consciously chosen and surprising. However, there is a drawback to the maze orientation: it moves the interactor toward a single solution, toward finding the one way out. (Murray, page 131)
