Group psychotherapy of Holocaust survivors : authors' own experience

Autorzy artykułu, w oparciu o ponad 14-letnie doświadczenia pracy z grupami ocalałych z Holocaustu, prezentują szeroki zakres zagadnień obecnych w procesie psychoterapii tych osób. Realizowany program ma swój początek w badaniach naukowych dotyczących następstw Holocaustu u ocalonych i ich dzieci prowadzonych przez zespół pod kierownictwem prof. Marii Orwid, która była również inicjatorką terapii indywidualnej i grupowej osób ocalałych z Holocaustu.The psychotherapy of children of survivors of the Holocaust is conducted in Poland within the framework of a programme leaded by professor Maria Orwid. Such group psychotherapy is conducted in intensive courses of 3 days, 6 hours a day in meetings held two or three times a year, and takes in around 60 people. One of the basic goals of psychotherapy is to restore the destroyed connection between the present and the past and make the survivors aware of their strengths allowing them to survive. These people need psychotherapeutic intervention helping them to change their self-perception, and replace their self-image of a weak and helpless person into that of someone strong who managed to survive the worst. The power of group psychotherapy lies in survivors’ common experiences giving them a sense of being understood, and facilitating their acceptance of interpretations proposed by other group members. Besides, it is the reverse of the trauma situation where the survivors were in isolation. In survivor psychotherapy the therapist is painfully confronted with a sense of helplessness and with questions about possibilities and boundaries of psychotherapy, with existential problems - possibility of a life after the loss of one’s world and leaving the world regained

Financial System and Technical Maintenance of Cooperative Housing Resources

The article presents an attempt at determining the impact exerted by principles of financing the cooperative housing sector on technical maintenance of housing resources. Its theoretical part is based on descriptive analysis supported by the theory explaining the impact exerted on the process of technical maintenance of housing resources by the financial system. The authoresses proceed from an assumption that the financial system in the cooperative housing sector has characteristics of a parametric system, which theoretically creates possibilities for the effective functioning of the process of technical maintenance of housing resources. These possibilities have be engreatly reduced in conditions of the economic crisis. This thesis is supplementd by statistical interpretation of te analyzed economic phenomena.Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej naukę