Masnavi and bibliotherapy

Biblotherapy is defined as a method which necessitates reading books on the cure of emotional and physical problems as the helper of other therapies. It is known that books that have superior quality in terms of literary and meaning, has features that are theraputic on human psychology and motivative on one's existing potential. Books do not only aim at improving children and teenager's language and intellectual development but also try ease to form their own individiuality, to gain more positive values and to adapt the environment they live in. Besides, moral principles, values, lifestyles of community can be transferred young generations via stories. It is aimed that since Mevlana's stories in Masnavi are universal, they can be used on the psychiatric disordered individuals. It is thought that stories should transmit problems and their solutions by embodying them and by that way alongside psychotherapy, as a helper, Masnavi stories can be transmitted to the patient via bibliotherapy method. In the next step, an interview is made with the patient and questioned his/her thoughts about the story. In my research I base on individual interviews which I have made in 2015 and 2016 at the Eskişehir State Hospital's Psychological Consultation Unit and Psychiatriy Service with inpatients. During the research, patient's identity informations and distinct features have been removed. In that research which I carried out on individuals among who applied healtcare institutions for their psychological disorders in Eskişehir, I aimed at contributing spiritual care and counseling field by sharing results and practices of Masnavi and Bibliotherapy. It is aimed by that research which carried out on the individuals applied healtcare institutions because of struggling their psychological disorders, contributing on spiritual care and counseling field by sharing results and practices of Masnavi and Bibliotherapy. Keywords: the story in masnavi, biblioteraphy, mevlana, personality