Publications
Publications arising from CHASE collaborations around reading and health.
2025
Josie Billington, Reading Literature and Chronic Pain (Bloomsbury, 2025).
Christine E. Ramsay Wade et al, ‘Words as Therapy’, in Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health, ed. by Nicola J. Holt et al (Routledge, 2025).
2024
Josie Billington, Reading and Reality’, in Literature and Institutions of Welfare, ed. by J. Cotton (Boydell & Brewer, 2024), pp. 11-31.
Josie Billington, ‘Literary Realism and Mental Breakdown’, in Literature and Medicine, ed. by Anna M.Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 167-85.
Josie Billington, ‘Uses of Literature and Psychoanalysis', in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, ed. by Vera Camden (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 168-185. (Awarded American Psychoanalytic Association Book Prize 2024.)
2023
Philip Davis et al. Reading, Literature and Psychology in Action, Frontiers Special Issue (2023).
2021
Melissa Chapple et al., ‘An Analysis of the Reading Habits of Autistic Adults Compared to Neurotypical Adults and Implications for Future Interventions, Research in Developmental Disabilities, 115 (2021). doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104003
Melissa Chapple et al, ‘Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem Within Pairs of Autistic and Non-autistic Adults Through the Contemplation of Serious Literature’, Frontiers in Psychology, 12 (2021). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708375
Josie Billington and Mette Steenberg, ‘Literary Reading and Mental Wellbeing’, in The Handbook of Empirical Studies of Literature, ed. by Arthur Jacobs and Donald Kuiken (De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 393-419.
2020
Josie Billington, ‘Inner Voices: Literary Realism and Psychoanalysis’, in The Faces of Depression in Literature, ed. by Josefa Ros Velasco (Peter Lang, 2020), pp. 165-80.
Josie Billington and Philip Davis, ‘A Methodology for Literary Reading’, in The Edinburgh History of Reading, ed by Jonathan Rose and Mary Hammond, 4 vols [Vol 2 Modern Readers] (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), pp. 283-305.
Josie Billington and Philip Davis, ‘Reading’, Companion to Health Humanities, ed. by Paul Crawford (Routledge, 2020), pp. 282-86.
2017
Josie Billington, ‘Reading and Chronic Pain’, in Arts, Health and Wellbeing: A Theoretical Inquiry for Practice, ed. by Theo Stickley and Stephen Clift (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), pp. 141-59.
2019
Josie Billington (ed), Reading and Mental Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
2016
Josie Billington, Is Literature Healthy? Literary Agenda Series (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Josie Billington et al, ‘A Comparative Study of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy & Shared Reading for Chronic Pain’, Journal of Medical Humanities, 43.3 (2016), 155-65. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2016-011047
Josie Billington et al, ‘A Literature-Based Intervention for Women Prisoners: Preliminary Findings’, International Journal of Prisoner Health, 12.4 (2016), 230-243. doi: 10.1108/IJPH-09-2015-0031
Ellie Gray et al, ‘An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Being in a Reader Group’, Arts & Health, 8.3 (2016), 248-61. doi: 10.1080/17533015.2015.1121883
Eleanor Longden et al, ‘An Evaluation of Shared Reading Groups for Adults Living with Dementia: Preliminary Findings’, Journal of Public Health, 15.2 (2016), 75-82. doi: 10.1108/JPMH-06-2015-0023
Philip Davis and Josie Billington, ‘The Very Grief a Cure of the Disease’, Changing English, 23.4 (2016), 396-408. doi: 10.1080/1358684X.2016.1194188
2015
Eleanor Longden et al, ‘Shared Reading: Assessing the Intrinsic Value of a Literature-Based Health Intervention’, Journal of Medical Humanities, 41.2 (2015), 113-20. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2015-010704
Noreen O'Sullivan et al, ‘"Shall I compare thee": The Neural Basis of Literary Awareness, and its Benefits to Cognition’, Cortex, 73 (2015), 144-57. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.014
2014
Josie Billington et al, ‘A Literature-Based Intervention for People with Chronic Pain’, Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 8.1 (2014), 13-31. doi: 10.1080/17533015.2014.957330
2013
Philip Davis, Reading and the Reader, Literary Agenda Series (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Josie Billington et al, ‘Reading as Participatory Art: An Alternative Mental Health Therapy’, Journal of Arts and Communities, 5.1 (2013), 25-40. doi: 10.1386/jaac.5.1.25_1
Josie Billington et al, ‘A Literature-Based Intervention for Older People Living with Dementia’, Perspectives in Public Health, 133.3 (2013), 165-173. doi: 10.1177/1757913912470052
James L. Keidel et al, ‘How Shakespeare Tempests the Brain: Neuroimaging Insights’, Cortex 48:5 (2013) 21-64. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.011
2012
Chris Dowrick et al, ‘Get into Reading as an Intervention for Common Mental Health Problems: Exploring Catalysts for Change’, Journal of Medical Humanities, 38.1 (2012), 15-20. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2011-010083
Josie Billington, ‘“Reading for Life”: Prison Reading Groups in Practice and Theory’, Critical Survey, Special Issue, ‘Reading and Writing in Prisons’, 23.3 (2012), 67–85. doi: 10.3167/cs.2011.230306
Josie Billington and Tom Sperlinger, ‘Where Does Literary Study Happen?’, Teaching in Higher Education, Special Issue Leaving the Academy, 16.5 (2011), 505-16. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2011.570439
2008
Guillaume Thierry et al, ‘Event-Related Potential Characterisation of the Shakespearean Functional Shift in Narrative Sentence Structure’, NeuroImage, 40 (2008): 923-931. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.006
Philip Davis, ‘Syntax and Pathways’, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 33:4 (2008), 265-77. doi: 10.1179/174327908X392843