Rola biblioterapeuty w pracy z osobami współuzależnionymi – analiza zawartości treści kwartalnika „Biblioterapeuta” w latach 1998–2008

Bibliotherapy can be helpful in treating people with various disabilities, including the co-addicted. The article shows the bibliotherapist’s role in working with people who are co-addicted in the 'Bibliotherapist' journal in the period 1998–2008, using analysis of the content as a research method. The 'Bibliotherapist' is a periodical which, until 2010, was the only one to shape the contemporary Polish bibliotherapy and disseminate the idea of therapy through reading. In ten-year period 207 articles were published on the journal’s pages, among which only 8 (4% of all articles) dealt with the use of bibliotherapy in treatment of co-addicted people. These texts appeared in the years: 1998 – 1, 1999 – 1, 2000 – 4 and 2002 – 2. The largest number of articles on this topic is associated with the appearance of a series of articles by Bronislawa Wozniczka-Paruzel on the use of bibliotherapy in treating the co-addicted from Al-Anon family groups. The analysis shows that the topic of codependency in conjuction with bibliotherapy aroused weak interest of the journal editors in comparision to other articles.