On the psychological basis of cognitive therapy theory,identity theory,and narrative theory,bibliotherapy goes through at least three stages: identification,catharsis,insight.
It started out as a cathartic exercise. I wrote a letter to my assaulter, humanizing him as " you, " to identify him as part of the very community that he had so violently abused that night.
This first step in any criminal inquiry was a cathartic moment for many Yazidi families, and we are encouraged to hear that the investigation in Iraq is now fully underway.
We are, rather, strong enough to be weak; to let our silliness, our idiocy, our anger and our sadness show, confident that these do not have to be the final verdicts on who we are.
Gerda pours out her heart with her sad story and the robber girl takes pity on her and admits that she has seen the Snow Queen heading off to Lapland with a boy.