• Maryam Karaminezhaad Ranjbar

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• Soheila Faghfori

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Etymologically, the term bibliotherapy being made of the words “biblio” which means books in
Greek and, “therapeia” meaning to help medically, refers to the use of books and stories with
the intention of psychological treatment. Clearly not all books have therapeutic qualities and not
all clients can be prescribed the same book. Therefore a proper book selection is one of the most
subtle jobs of a therapist or whoever takes the role of a facilitator in the process. One of such
books which seem suitable for therapy is Anne Fine’s novel, Google-eyes written for children.
What makes this story interestingly more appropriate for this purpose is that the story, having a
character who tries to help sooth her friend by recounting her own life story, is itself a
bibliotherapy session in progress. Throughout the paper besides clarifying the notion of
bibliotherapy, according to Shrodes and a number of other scholars, the novel Goggle-eyes is
examined regarding all the elements of bibliotherapy, making it easier for therapist to conduct a
healing process through books.

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