If you go to your GP with a mental health problem you might expect to be offered medication – or possibly a treatment such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – but if you live in the Merseyside area you could find yourself being invited to join a book group. Dubbed ‘Prose not Prozac’, the scheme is being funded by Merseycare Mental Health and Wirral Primary Care Trust who plan to run book groups on hospital wards, in outpatient clinics and day centres with the belief that the shared experience of reading a book has therapeutic properties. Judy Merry went to the Cherry Tree Day hospital in Liverpool and met with their Reader-in-Residence Mary Weston to find out more about how the scheme works.
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