| Through hermeneutic and artistic-creative research methodologies, the author seeks to discover the future implications of increased consumption of electronic media. She hypothesizes that excessive electronic media consumption is potentially damaging to imagination, development, and health, and seeks to discover ways of reversing and repairing this damage. To this end, the author explores the essential functions of electronic media, points out the ways in which it is failing society, and argues that literature is a better way of accomplishing the same societal functions as electronic media. She explores the possible healing potential of fantasy literature in bibliotherapy with children, and presents research on the history and indications of its use. She asserts that because children's reading habits have changed, a new way of using bibliotherapy in psychoanalysis is necessary, and proposes an analytical approach to bibliotherapy, which emphasizes close reading skills, and the use of fantasy literature as its basis. |
