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This article presents the core ideas of bibliotherapy as an integrative psychotherapeutic channel, exploring the ways in which it integrates new meanings into psychotherapeutic modalities, concepts, and principles. The unique aspect of the bibliotherapeutic relationship is that it is based on a triangular mode of therapist-text-patient. It supplements this with the creative processes of reading, writing, and the development of the capacity to narrate. Bibliotherapy uses many of the same concepts as other psychotherapeutic treatments, such as transference, countertransference, potential space, and the capacity to play. The integration of various kinds of texts within the clinical context, such as children's literature or adolescent poems and songs, makes bibliotherapy different. The text will be integrated according to the developmental stage of the patients. This article introduces the theoretical background of bibliotherapy and places bibliotherapy within the Winnicottian context and parent–child therapy. Examples of different clinical experiences within bibliotherapy are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The narratives of mothers are usually not expressed through cultural and national memories. In addition, the psychological theories insist on defining motherhood and subjectivity from the point of view of the developing child. The term “subjective motherhood” enables us to attempt to describe and theorize maternal subjectivity in this complicated and contradictory sense. The aim of this research is to create a wide enough concept of motherhood subjectivity in order to contain the motherhood experience as a process of creating identity and meaning. The blog “this is the way I am” is the room of Pema, a 49 year old Israeli mother and the author of a weblog. The written narratives in her blog reflect the dialogue between the mental dimensions of rememory and meaning. Through the writing process, Pema is giving narrative birth to her subjective identity as a mother. Writing a blog gave Pema the most precious thing she owns, the story of her subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]