Chapter One. Introduction; Josie Billington -- PART ONE; READING AND HEALTH: MEDICINE TO LITERATURE, LITERATURE TO THERAPY -- Chapter Two. Comfort in a Whirlwind; Christopher Dowrick -- Chapter Three. The Sonnet Cure: Renaissance Poetics to Romantic Prosaics; Grace Farrington and Philip Davis -- Chapter Four. The Victorian Novel: Laying the Foundations for ‘Bibliotherapy’; Grace Farrington, Philip Davis and Josie Billington -- PART TWO; PRACTICES -- Chapter Five. Reading for Depression/Mental Health; Clare Ellis, Eleanor McCann, Anne Line Dalsgård -- Chapter Six. Reading for Dementia; Katie Clarke, Charlotte Weber, Susan McLaine -- Chapter Seven. Reading in Prisons; Alexis McNay, Charlie Darby-Villis, Ann Walmsley -- Chapter Eight. Reading in Clinical Contexts; Grace Farrington, Kate McDonnell and Helen Cook -- PART THREE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES -- Chapter Nine. Qualitative Methodologies I; Jude Robinson and Josie Billington, Ellie Gray and Gundi Kiemle, Melissa Chapple -- Chapter Ten. Qualitative Methods II; Josie Billington and Philip Davis, Mette Steenberg, Grace Farrington and Fiona Magee, Thor Magnus Tangeraas, Kelda Green -- Chapter Eleven. Linguistic Approaches; Sofia Lampropulou and Kremena Koleva, Josie Billington, Philip Davis, Gavin Brookes and Kevin Harvey -- Chapter Twelve. Quantitative Methodologies; Rhiannon Corcoran, Josie Billington and Megan Watkins, Mette Steenberg, Charlotte Christianson, Nikolai Ladegaard, Don Kuiken -- Chapter Thirteen. Reading: Brain, Mind and Body; Philip Davis, Rhiannon Corcoran, Rick Rylance and Adam Zeman, David Kidd, Christophe de Bezenac -- PART FOUR; TOWARDS A THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF READING AND HEALTH -- Chapter Fourteen. Reading and Psychiatric Practices; David Fearnley and Grace Farrington -- Chapter Fifteen. Reading and Psychology I, ‘Reading Minds: Fiction and its Relation to the Mental Worlds of Self and Others’; Rhiannon Corcoran and Keith Oatley -- Chapter Sixteen Reading and Psychology II, ‘Metaphoricity, Inexpressible Realizations, and Expressive Enactment’; Don Kuiken -- Chapter Seventeen. Reading and Psychoanalysis; Adam Phillips, Philip Davis -- PART FIVE; READING AND HEALTH: IMPLEMENTATION - BARRIERS AND ENABLERS -- Chapter Eighteen. Reading and Mental Health; Ellie Gray, Grace Farrington, Mette Steenberg -- Chapter Nineteen. Reading and Dementia; Martin Orrell and Tom Dening, Nusrat Husain, Sally, Rimkeit, Gill Claridge, Dalice Sim -- Chapter Twenty. Reading in Prisons; Fiona Magee -- Chapter Twenty One. Reading in a Clinical Context Reading and Chronic Pain; Kate McDonnell