Published : 2024-11-29

From Experiencing Disability to Adapting

About the Turning Points and Therapeutic Values of the Life and Work of Michał Kaziów

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The life and literary works of Michał Kaziów (a blind person, amputee of both hands) have been subjected to numerous literary, psychological, pedagogical, bibliotherapeutic analyses – as expressed in scientific and journalistic publications. This paper proposes an analysis of the writer's biography, aiming to identify turning points/epiphanies and their influence on the course of the writer's life path and the nature of his literary expression. In the course of the considerations references have been made to Lech Kowalewski's concept of the psychosocial process of  adapting to disability, Roman Schulz's concept of creativity and Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun's concept of post-traumatic growth. A modified model of interdisciplinary research into the writing of visually impaired authors was used in identifying the turning points in Kaziów's biography and work and determining their therapeutic importance for the writer and his readers, paying particular attention to the biographical method, critical-descriptive analysis of sources and the method of participatory observation. The obtained research results have been verified using the personal (autopsy) experience of the author of the study. The legitimacy of referring to Kaziów's biography and creative output in the process of biographical learning and bibliotherapeutic proceedings has been indicated.

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multiple disabilities, literary creativity, epiphany, adaptation to disability, post-traumatic growth, bibliotherapy, Michał Kaziów



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Czerwińska, M. (2024). From Experiencing Disability to Adapting: About the Turning Points and Therapeutic Values of the Life and Work of Michał Kaziów. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna [Biographical Studies in Education], 9(1), 103–128. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2024.09.24

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1