In this article written by Jen Christensen, Alison Kerr Courtney, the founder of BiblioRemedy is not a therapist nor an English teacher. “Courtney is a kind of book whisperer.” Courtney’s clients do not walk out of her office with a prescription of some kind of medicine, instead they walk out with a reading list of books that she thinks will help her clients find solace. Courtney talks about how people who have been reading fiction test higher for empathy, how people’s heart rate change when they read intense and interesting books, and how fiction may actually be more powerful than nonfiction. All these things are useful facts that help Courtney’s clients get over their grief and sorrow of something terrible that happened in their life. But
