Kalinowski, Mirosław (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2006)
The paper seeks to show the role of religious communities as regards their support for the persons who experience the syndrome of co-addiction. The first part of the paper shows the dynamism of the family system with the problem of addiction and mental, emotional, and behavioural symptoms of co-addiction. The second part seeks to show the religious community as a system supporting the development of man due to intellectual, emotional, instrumental, and material support. The third part presents the specific character of the support given by religious communities to those who experience co-addiction. In this kind of support the stress is laid on the reduction of scripts: “do not talk,” “do not trust, ”do not feel” and the formation of behaviours that are designed to help a constructive solution of difficult situations.
