Aug 12 The healing power of reading

BBC随身英语｜阅读是治愈心灵的良药吗？
The healing power of reading

The power of books was recognised a few years ago by the British charity Reading Agency, who published a list of books that doctors could offer to patients, tackling topics from depression to dementia to chronic pain. It called this 'bibliotherapy' and it's become so successful that it's about to be extended to children as well.
几年前，英国慈善机构“阅读协会”就意识到了书籍的力量，他们出版了一份书单，供医生提供给患者，这些书涉及从抑郁症到痴呆症再到慢性疼痛等主题。他们将这种疗法称为“阅读疗法”，这种疗法非常成功，即将推广到儿童群体中。

Professor Philip Davis studies the effects of literature at Liverpool University and is author of a book called Reading for Life. He studies people in reading groups and found that it's reading literature – written work thought to have artistic merit, that has the best effect. He told the BBC that when reading something for pleasure, "…the brain begins to work from different parts, from a different hemisphere and it gets excited, it gets pre-emotional – and you can see the brain coming to life."
利物浦大学的菲利普·戴维斯教授研究文学的影响，并著有《终身阅读》一书。他研究阅读小组中的人们，发现阅读文学作品——被认为具有艺术价值的书面作品——效果最好。他告诉英国广播公司，当人们为了乐趣而阅读时，“……大脑会开始调动不同的区域，从不同的脑半球开始运作，它会变得兴奋，产生一种预情绪状态——你能看到大脑焕发出活力。

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