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Ella Berthoud

Ella Berthoud is a painter, a bibliotherapist, and the author, with Susan Elderkin, of The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You.

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How to Cure Your Anxiety

<p>Always feeling anxious? There’s a cure, and it doesn’t involve drugs, medicinal herbs, or shock therapy. Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin, the authors of the new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Novel-Cure-Abandonment-Zestlessness/dp/1594205167">The Novel Cure</a></i>,<i> </i>recommend simply reading Henry James’s <i>The Portrait of a Lady</i>.</p>

Ella Berthoud

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