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Psychodynamic bibliotherapy is a therapeutic approach that integrates psychoanalytic theory with creative expression, offering a unique and transformative way to explore emotions, facilitate healing, and foster psychological growth. Through poetry, stories, music, film, and dynamic writing techniques, it creates transitional spaces where individuals can safely access their inner world and engage with unconscious material in a non-threatening way. Grounded in the work of psychoanalytic pioneers such as Freud, Klein, Jung, and Winnicott, psychodynamic bibliotherapy draws from deep theoretical foundations to support personal and professional development across all age groups and settings. Central to this approach is Winnicott’s concept of the “transitional space” — a liminal realm where the boundaries between reality and imagination, self and other, internal and external, become fluid. In this space, the symbolic and the real intertwine, allowing the authentic self to emerge through creative play and imaginative engagement. What sets psychodynamic bibliotherapy apart from more traditional bibliotherapy models is its multi-modal nature. Rather than focusing solely on reading or analyzing texts, this method employs a diverse range of stimuli — from literature and poetry to film, photographs, digital communication, and even AI tools. These serve as portals to the human psyche, inviting the integration of emotional, cognitive, physical, and unconscious dimensions of experience. Writing techniques, used reflectively and therapeutically, support this inner exploration and meaning-making process. While expressive arts therapies such as art, music, and dance therapy have long incorporated psychodynamic principles, psychodynamic bibliotherapy remains less widely known internationally. Yet in several parts of the world, it has been established for decades as a respected clinical discipline — with proven efficacy in psychotherapeutic and educational settings. Psychodynamic bibliotherapy offers a rich and profound toolkit for working with individuals across the lifespan — children, adolescents, and adults — in both individual and group formats, and across a wide range of cultural and professional contexts.
Bibliotherapist MA
Eyal Ivnitsky
Eyal has a BA in Psychology from Emek Yezreel College and a Master's in Bibliotherapy, from the University of Haifa. He is earned a certificate in animal-assisted psychotherapy from Oranim Academic College. Over the past decade, he has worked with a wide range of people, including those recovering from substance abuse, adolescents, and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In 2013 he founded Ha-Mila, the Israeli Bibliotherapy Centre, to promote bibliotherapy in Israel. Now, he is thrilled to be part of the Bibliotherapy Academy, where he looks forward to working with a wider audience, diving together into the healing power of stories.
Bibliotherapist MA
Efrat Havusha-Feldman
Efrat is a passionate bibliotherapist with a Master’s in Bibliotherapy from David Yellin College. She uses stories, poems and writing in her clinical work to help people get closer to their essence and feel understood and relived. Her journey into bibliotherapy started with writing stories as a child and continued with a BA in Social Sciences and professional screenwriting training in Tel Aviv, which really helped to forge her view of stories as a vehicle for change.
Since 2013, she's been using literature and psychodynamic techniques for therapeutic purposes with children, teens, and adults—in both individual and group settings — and has specialised in traumatic loss and grief. In 2014, she joined Ha-Mila, the Israeli Bibliotherapy Centre, for which she created and facilitated a broad range of training programs. In 2024, she co-founded The Bibliotherapy Academy, aiming to inspire people worldwide to harness the power of stories, poems and writing for self-development and growth.
