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Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology/Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii
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4/2021
vol. 30
 
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Review paper

The specificity of the use of bibliotherapy as an element of psychiatric rehabilitation in a group of patients suffering from schizophrenia

Beata J. Kasperek-Zimowska
1
,
Agata Bednarek
1
,
Marta Giguere
1
,
Wojciech Orłowski
1
,
Maryla Malewicz-Sawicka
2

  1. Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
  2. The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Institute of Psychology, Warsaw, Poland
Adv Psychiatry Neurol 2021; 30 (4): 278-286
Online publish date: 2021/12/21
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Purpose: This article emphasizes the characteristics of the application of bibliotherapy in psychiatric rehabilitation of people suffering from chronic schizophrenia. The role of the bibliotherapist and methodology for conducting bibliotherapy for people with chronic schizophrenia are also described.

Views: The characteristic symptoms are connected to a patient’s perception of the surrounding reality differing from the norm. This may be due to the symptoms of schizophrenia and its course, in which psychoticism can become a regulative part of a patient’s personality. The academic definition of bibliotherapy proposed by Ewa Tomasik says that “bibliotherapy is an intentional activity that uses books or non-printed materials to fulfil rehabilitative, re-socializing, prophylactic and developmental aims for people from varying social backgrounds, in different age and with diverse needs”. This article focuses on and discusses the structure and course of bibliotherapy sessions embedded in individual and group rehabilitation process. An additional goal is to explain bibliotherapy as an element of the entire system of rehabilitation and therapeutic interactions which has a therapeutic effect for this system, not only in terms of individual classes. Attention is paid to the narrative nature of bibliotherapy, in combination with behavioral-cognitive, humanistic and psychodynamic interactions.

Conclusions: Bibliotherapy can help people suffering from chronic schizophrenia to organize their self-narrative and narratives about other people, to make them real and to organize their statements, so that the content and manner of thinking can be regulated.
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bibliotherapy, schizophrenia, psychiatric rehabilitation

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