INTRODUCTION Numerous studies and medical practice have quite convincingly proven the negative impact of fetal alcohol intoxication, as well as genetic burden on the subsequent development of the child. At the same time, the negative impact of alcohol abuse on offspring, as well as various aspects of family life, does not end there. So, even if alcoholism appears in the family after the birth of a child, the development of his personality will in any case be deformed, only under the influence of social factors. Every family where there is a person who is sick with alcoholism is dysfunctional. Despite the differences in the lives of such families, the essence of what happens in them is always the same. In families of this type, there is always tension, a feeling of unpredictability and chaos, anxiety, and mental pain. Children's needs are not met because their parents are unavailable to them physically (for example, a drinking father is practically never at home) or emotionally (during a period of sobriety, the father may think about how to drink, and the mother may think about how to keep him from drinking). Regardless of whether only one person in the family drinks or other family members, alcoholism can be characterized as a family disease. The most common type in our society is the type of families burdened by alcohol addiction, in which the husband abuses alcohol, and the wife, in turn, , strives to save him and return him to the right path. Such a family as a whole should be called alcoholic, since the wife in it is codependent on her husband’s alcoholism, and this is also a disease. In this case, it is necessary to work with the family as a whole. This is precisely what determines the relevance of considering the problem today. The purpose of this essay is to study the features of working with codependent families using the example of an alcoholic family. 1. THE PHENOMENON OF CODEPENDENCY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CODEPENDENT PEOPLE Human dependence on psychoactive substances as a disease has been well studied today. Most researchers also note that addiction to psychoactive substances in a certain way affects all members of the dependent person’s family. In order to describe the condition that develops in family members of a dependent person (drug addiction, alcoholism, substance abuse, etc.), the term “codependency” is used. The concept of codependency is used both to describe the mental state of individual family members (codependent) and to characterize intrafamily relationships in general. There are quite a large number of definitions of codependency. So, for example, codependency can be defined as an emotional, psychological and behavioral state that arises as a result of a person's long-term exposure to oppressive rules that prevent the open expression of feelings. Another definition defines codependency as a pattern of behaviors, feelings and beliefs that make a person's life painful. The main symptoms of codependency include: - a feeling of being dependent on people; - a feeling of being trapped in demeaning and controlling relationships; - low levels of self-esteem; - the need for constant approval and support from other people in order to feel that everything is going well; - a feeling of one’s own powerlessness to change anything in a destructive relationship; - the need for alcohol, work, food or some other external stimulants for in order to distract from experiences; - uncertainty of psychological boundaries; - a person’s feeling of being in the role of a martyr or a jester; - inability to experience a feeling of true intimacy and love [1]. If you analyze the symptoms of codependency more carefully, you can find a typical model behavior that is more typical for children than for adultsperson. Codependent people are unable to distinguish their own thoughts and feelings from the thoughts and feelings of other people. Such a person thinks for another person and feels responsible for him. They feel guilt and anxiety if another person has some problems, concentrate all their own energy on the other person and his happiness, etc. Considering codependency in alcoholic families (within the framework of this essay we will consider families in which the husband is an alcoholic, due to the greatest prevalence of this type of family), it can be defined as a personal formation that develops in the wives of alcoholics. Codependency in this case is the result of prolonged exposure to stress, as well as a focus on the husband’s problems to the point of self-denial, ignoring one’s own responsibilities towards children. Codependent spouses absolutely do not understand where the personality of one person ends and the personality of another begins. The wives of people suffering from alcoholism have blurred boundaries of their own “I”. They are so absorbed in responsibility for their spouse that they lose themselves, suppress their feelings and needs, as if they “freeze” them, which leads to increased tolerance of emotional pain. Despite constant conflicts, quarrels, scandals, negative experiences (fear, shame, anger, anxiety , despair), the spouses are very closely united emotionally. Codependency is a psychological phenomenon that involves a symbiotic relationship between close people, one of whom is an alcoholic. This relationship is destructive for both, but the spouses cannot end it. Disharmony finds expression in the emotional state, which is often opposite in spouses. When one spouse is in a good mood, the other is in a bad mood, etc. The symbiotic relationship between spouses is an alliance in which the husband and wife alternately occupy a dominant position, and then, on the contrary, a subordinate position. For example, for a wife, a dominant position means: “While you feel bad, I feel stronger, able to control you, nothing threatens me; “By “saving” you, I am building a building of self-esteem, I am responsible for your life, I am manipulating you.” The husband, who is in a subordinate position at this time, feels something like this: “Life is not a success, I can’t do anything and I have to rely on you. I feel protected, but also insulted, which justifies my behavior. You are responsible for my life.” As a rule, this relationship of positions is observed when the husband is in a sober state (especially “with a hangover”). When the husband is drunk, the positions change: the husband takes revenge for his own humiliation, proves (by all means available to him) his importance. The wife, in turn, fearing aggression, takes a subordinate position. Identifying herself with her husband leads a codependent woman to suffer for both. Since alcoholism is perceived in society as a vice, the wife is ashamed of her husband’s behavior as much as if it were her behavior. In fear of humiliation and condemnation from the people around her, she tries with all her might to hide her husband’s drunkenness. Alcoholism is usually a big family secret. Codependent wives try to justify their husband to relatives, finding reasons that excuse his behavior. They call work and tell him he's sick when he's drunk; they monitor the husband’s appearance so that it does not indicate drunkenness; they ask the husband to drink at home, etc. The constant need for such a double life (at work you need to play the role of a prosperous woman, although at home everything is different) gradually leads the codependent wife to form the habit of lying. She deceives not only strangers, but also her husband and children, believing that only a lie can help out in difficult situations. It’s easy for the wives of alcoholics to deceive themselves, believing their husband’s constant promises that he will stop drinking. Codependent wives are characterized by the effectiveness of perception - they see and hear whatwhat they want, they believe not in reality, but in what coincides with their desires. This destructive, destructive process of self-deception and dishonesty within interpersonal relationships leads to personality degradation. Moreover, this situation can last for many years [2]. Being in such a symbiotic emotional union with her alcoholic husband, the wife strives to protect him from all adversity and criticism of those around her, since she perceives his pain as her own. She blames his friends and colleagues for her husband’s drinking, puts forward various circumstances that “drove him to drunkenness,” etc. Just as the patient does not see any connection between his drunkenness and the problems that arise as a result, so the codependent wife denies her husband’s powerlessness over alcohol. She is sure that everything depends on her husband’s wishes, and is offended when he is called an alcoholic. In an effort to force her husband to give up alcohol, the codependent wife begins to control his behavior, guide him and the life of the entire family. For example, she takes on the work that a man should do in the house; tries to earn more to support the financial level of the family; controls finances, while hiding real income and depriving her husband of money so that he does not spend it on vodka. Trying to maintain the social status of her husband, the wife makes every possible effort to ensure that her husband remains in his job, or she herself arranges for him to find a new job. To fill her husband’s free time, she strives to find him a hobby; uses sexual relations as a tool to control her husband. Finally, she persuades him not to go to his friends without her, drinks with him so that he does not get so drunk, or, on the contrary, screams and swears, pours vodka into the sink, etc. Fear and anxiety for her husband, pity for him prompt the wife to babysit him, console him when he regrets his behavior, etc. Having taken full responsibility for her husband, a codependent wife feels indispensable. This certainly fuels her sense of self-worth, as well as the belief that her husband cannot live without her. Along with this, a codependent wife is afraid of being abandoned. It is incomprehensible to her that her husband can do without her, since this destroys her entire picture of the world. Such ambivalence of feelings is also observed in other areas of relationships. Wives often rush from one extreme to another: from hatred to love, from depression to elation, from maximum control over the life of the family to connivance, etc. For this reason, the behavior of a codependent wife is often contradictory and devoid of logic. For example, she complains about her husband that he drinks away all his money, after which she buys him a “bottle” in order to reward him for good behavior. The specific influence of an alcoholic husband causes the following emotional manifestations in women: anxiety, shame and fear, prolonged despair, as well as a feeling of anger at her husband, at herself, at her children, at all the people around her. Constant negative emotions lead to somatic diseases and neurotic disorders. As a rule, the wives of alcoholics experience neuroses, dysphoria, depression, affective states, they also suffer from diseases of the digestive system (colitis, ulcers), hypertension, headaches, etc. Naturally, all the considered negative consequences of women’s codependency affect their relationships with kids. It is no coincidence that children, if their alcoholic father is not aggressive, in 8 cases out of 10 prefer to communicate better with him rather than with their mother, who does not drink at all. This can be explained by the fact that the mother, withstanding such overloads, simply does not have any strength to listen to the children and play with them. Most often, she is irritated, tired, grumpy and inconsistent [3]. Thus, if one of the spouses in a family is an alcoholic, then the other suffers from codependency. The similarity between alcoholism and codependency is manifested in the fact that both conditions are painful, lead to degradation of a person’s moral character, and to disturbances invarious spheres. Manifestations of codependency are quite diverse, and they relate to all aspects of human mental activity. All this determines the need for competent organization of psychotherapeutic work with such families, which has a number of characteristic features and characteristics. Let's look at the features of working with codependent families using the example of the described type of family. 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF WORKING WITH CODEPENDENT FAMILIES USING THE EXAMPLE OF AN ALCOHOL FAMILY The described features of codependent families determine the specifics of working with them. In general, codependency psychotherapy usually requires quite a lot of effort. However, significant progress can be made in this direction. Married couples can speed up the process if both partners use all possible resources. The following resources for recovery in this aspect can be identified: - a fixed relationship with another person who is also ready to break their own patterns of codependency; - psychotherapy for married couples or the whole family with a psychotherapist who uses a systematic approach to the treatment of codependency; - support groups in which people work with tasks of this kind; - a selection of books and articles about codependency therapy; - tools that promote the use of a person’s internal capabilities (meditation, breathing exercises, journaling, analyzing dreams, working with feelings, etc.) [4]. Special family psychotherapy plays a role. The behavior of any individual is determined by a complex system of often unconscious rules that guide his family. This gives us the right to consider them as the reasons that determine the interaction and determine the lifestyle of the individual who is part of the family [5]. Most modern therapists agree on the functioning of the family system. Among the methods of family psychotherapy used, several of the most common ones stand out: individual psychotherapy with each family member, psychotherapy for individual couples, group psychotherapy for married couples, participation of families in psychotherapeutic communities, as well as therapy for children from families of the type in question. Due to the complexity of relationships in codependent In families, the most justified is an integrated (synthetic) approach, which is based on taking into account the need for psychological therapy of each family member. A permanent component of family psychotherapy for alcoholism is individual psychotherapy with each family member. Individual psychotherapy must necessarily be preceded by a stage of psychological diagnosis. Individual psychotherapy makes it possible to more accurately assess the true depth of experiences of existing conflicts, as well as the peculiarities of family members’ understanding of the existing relationships. In addition, during its implementation, patient feedback is provided in group forms. Individual psychotherapy makes it possible to achieve a certain result. At the same time, according to one of the founders of family therapy, K. Whitaker, individual therapy is a rather fragile thing. He argues that the achievements of individual psychotherapy are quite easily destroyed after its completion, since it is very strongly influenced by the processes of a person’s life. Changing the family system represents a change in infrastructure, so it is much more sustainable. When starting family psychotherapy in working with the family of a patient with alcoholism, it is necessary, first of all, to consider the model of the family system. What is the art of family therapy? It means being integrated into the family, experiencing reality as family members perceive it, and participating in the repeated interactions that form the structure of the family and shape people's thinking and behavior. It means that such inclusion must be used as a means to becomea change-causing factor that operates within the family system and carries out its interventions in a way that is only possible in a given family, with the goal of creating a different, more productive way of existence [6]. Only by identifying significant variables that allow us to comprehend what is happening in the family can outline an intervention strategy. Family structure can be represented as a topography - a cross-section of the family system. The most important concepts that serve to describe family structure are the concepts of “connection” and “hierarchy”. As already noted, symbiosis, as well as separation of members of a codependent family, are considered as communication dysfunctions. Hierarchy determines the relationship of dominance - subordination in the family. The systems approach contains a paradox. On the one hand, it is necessary to understand the whole based on its parts, and the parts from the point of view of the whole. But on the other hand, we can never fully understand the whole, even with the most ingenious analysis of the parts and their interaction with each other, just as we can never gain a complete understanding of the part only from its role in a larger context, which she enters. The solution to this paradox implies both: the part is considered both as an independent unit and as an integrated part of the whole. In psychotherapy, this approach means the opportunity to better understand the client, viewing him not only through the prism of intrapsychic problems (internal dilemmas, anxiety, etc. ), but also from the point of view of the whole, i.e. in the context of social connections of which it is an integral part. Human behavior, which at first glance seems to be a deviation from the norm, with an individual approach can become natural or at least understandable. This occurs if we consider behavior as a response to relationships that take place in some central system for him, of which he is a part (for example, in the family). Understanding may be enhanced if we imagine the client’s family as a subsystem that interacts with other subsystems, for example, with housemates. In this regard, it is necessary to note another important aspect of systems theory - hierarchy. This means that any system can be considered as a subsystem within another, larger system. The elements of the system are considered further as indivisible units of analysis. The concept of hierarchy greatly emphasizes the ability of systems theory to find one point of view or another. It is researchers and psychologists who choose the resolution level to study the system. The level of splitting they choose has a significant impact on what they see and how they evaluate what they see. When working with a child in a psychiatric clinic, his mental illness is perceived as something happening within himself. Working with his family, it is possible to conclude that his symptoms are related to family conflict. Taking the next step, you can see the general disadvantage of the family in a broader social context, for example, problems at school, low-paid work of parents, poor living conditions, etc. Simultaneously with the growth of knowledge about the connections and interaction processes that led to the patient’s abnormal behavior, the full complexity of what is happening is comprehended [7]. Microdynamics reflects the most characteristic features of the functioning of the family system. To analyze it, the concepts of family roles, as well as patterns of interaction, are introduced. Any family system can be described by six parameters. These are interaction stereotypes; family rules; family myths; boundaries; stabilizers; family history [8]. In order to analyze microdynamics, a family psychotherapist must master the following conceptual apparatus: - family history or evolution. One of the most typical scenarios of the Slavic family is drinking husbands and wives “saving” them; - family development cycles that are associated with new stages of life. Slavic families experience significant difficulties in separating children, sincethere is a traditional weakness of the marital system and the predominance of families that are centered on children; - traumatic events in family history. Here it is necessary to emphasize the negative impact of traumatic experience on the mental health of the family. The main goal of family therapy for codependent families is to change family macro- and microdynamics. In order for a psychotherapeutic intervention to be successful, it is necessary to use all stages of the intervention. V. Satir’s procedural methodology, which set as its goal the achievement of changes, is based, first of all, on the concept of the stages that a person goes through on the way to these changes. Since Satir defined the first stage as the “status quo,” when people feel the need for change, but are afraid of it, here she considered it necessary, first of all, to create a sense of security in them. It is important that people have the strength to strive for certain changes, despite their fears and fears. To do this, Satir established strong contact with people and promoted self-confidence. Once Satir felt that she had achieved complete trust, she gradually prepared people to accept changes. To begin with, she often let them know that their usual patterns of behavior had become unusable. Having pulled these patterns of behavior out into the open, Satir became the main “alien element” of the second stage, shaking the existing system. Such actions gave rise to the fourth stage - “chaos”. At this stage, Satyr became both a caring assistant and also a stern commander, while helping people to steadily strive forward, to overcome chaos, and not allowing them, being frightened, to go back and return to the “status” stage -quo." She was able to achieve this by exploiting the new possibilities in behavior and perception that she opened up for clients. And finally, to reinforce the developed behavior and attitudes, Satir created conditions that involved new patterns of behavior, thanks to which what was recently learned became familiar and ordinary for people [9]. Let us consider, as an example of family psychotherapy for a codependent family, the case cited by K. Madanes. Case description: “A thirty-year-old man was brought to the hospital emergency department by his wife. The day before, he returned home intoxicated, muttering incomprehensibly in response to his wife’s questions that he had gotten into a fight with someone in a bar and then got into a car accident. She was unable to find any damage to the car. The husband felt he was being followed and barricaded himself inside the house. The man was a heavy alcoholic, often raising his hand against his wife. He behaved like an extremely unstable person. He complained of memory loss. The spouses were prescribed family therapy”[10]. In the case under consideration, the spouses presented two problems: the husband’s drunkenness and the marital difficulties that were associated with it. In the example considered by K. Madanes, the incongruent hierarchy was due to the alcohol addiction of the husband, whose social status was significantly inferior in comparison with the position occupied by the wife. The husband's drunkenness gave him the opportunity to wield power over his wife and at the same time increased his weakness in comparison with her. The wife occupied a position of superiority in the marriage due to her social status, as well as her husband’s rampant drunkenness. At the same time, she was in a lower position, since she constantly tried to keep him from drinking and constantly suffered defeats. In addition, she resignedly accepted all the insults from him. In solving the problem of alcohol dependence, the therapist used paradoxical prescriptions. After this, the husband’s heightened jealousy was presented as a problem, which also served as an expression of a mismatch in the hierarchy. Consequently, jealousy was also a source of strength and weakness in marriage. The therapist worked with the problem in question for more than one month until it, too,resolved safely. During therapy, episodes of drunkenness resumed twice, but their development stopped. The psychotherapist, firstly, demanded from the wife new sacrifices, to which her love for her husband obliged her, which provoked her to finally stop being a victim and show greater intolerance towards her husband’s drunkenness. Secondly, the therapist invited the husband’s family to clarify issues that were associated with his inherent feelings of failure and inferiority in life. The therapeutic intervention in the case under consideration consisted of the following aspects: - external coercion and pressure, which the client referred to as the reasons for his alcoholism were rejected by the therapist. Drunkenness was eventually defined as a man's voluntary choice, rather than a manifestation of his helplessness; a paradoxical directive was successfully used, which ordered the wife to encourage her husband's drinking. The result of this was that drunkenness ceased to act as a focal point of marital struggle. The husband began to let loose his hands less; - instead of drunkenness, the spouses began to use the husband’s jealousy of his wife as a source of their mutual strength and weakness. Marital jealousy required the psychotherapist to work for several months, during which direct and paradoxical directives became the main techniques; - the husband’s position was strengthened due to the fact that he contacted the employment service, his professional plans were discussed, and the situation regarding his grandmother and father was clarified . A year later, the husband received a promotion; the spouses came to greater equality in their relationship. Thus, symptomatic behavior ceased to act as a means of causing incongruence in the family hierarchy; - the husband’s position in the family hierarchy was even more strengthened when the therapist slowed down his too rapid change, and then expressed confidence in further improvement [11]. Recovery from codependency is a process whose individual steps can be predicted. Their order will undoubtedly be different for each person. However, it is likely that each individual will have to experience all of the stages before breaking free from codependent patterns. Individuals will need to do much more than just get in touch with some of the steps. For example, the first step, which involves recognizing the prevalence of codependent patterns in relationships, may require quite a lot of time and effort. Codependency is so pervasive that a person may not recognize it as a dysfunctional behavior. Other steps may also require intensive work. Thus, learning to be more aware of your own feelings and express them more effectively is usually possible, but it requires some pretty hard work [12]. Awareness of codependent patterns. There are a large number of ways that prevent the awareness of codependency. It's like a dream. A person dreams that something is going as usual. Even if this is not the case, he continues to remain in this dream state. Almost everything a person has experienced in their life has some shadow of codependency, so they may not know that there could be something better. For some, denying their own feelings and needs can be a learned safety or survival mechanism. If a person had actually been aware of or discussed what was happening in the family where he grew up, then perhaps he would not have survived his childhood. He could have been taught not to notice what was happening to him in order to maintain the illusion of a “big, happy and friendly family” among those around him. Of all the things a person has learned to ignore, it is the refusal to express his feelings that has the most devastating effect on him. Codependency, like most addictions, is a disease of the senses. Understanding the causes of the problem.On this point, there is confusion in the literature about the causes of codependency. Some authors argue that this is the result of a genetic predisposition, others that codependency begins from contacts with alcoholics or an alcoholic family. The main point is that codependency is a learned behavior. At the same time, it is considered as a systemic problem associated with upbringing in the family and in society. Unraveling codependent relationships. Once a person understands that the causes of codependency begin in the dynamics of a relationship that was not completed, he will immediately see these dynamics come full circle in his present relationships. Completion of the process of psychological birth is, first of all, the realization that a person has been in a codependent relationship all the time. When he realizes what important stages of development he missed in his time, then, using additional support and acquiring new skills, he will be able to consciously complete this process. Refusal of his projections. When a person tries to become isolated, considering other people to be wrong or bad, then he develops a lifestyle that is based on projections. A person can distort reality so that it corresponds to his need to always be right, and justify his own behavior while considering other people to be wrong. Rejecting such projections often requires gentle confrontation and support from a group or from family members, partners and friends, a spouse, or a therapist. Projections are the building blocks in the wall of denial. They have a tendency to slowly fall until much of the wall of denial breaks down and finally reveals the truth about who the person is and who other people are. Eliminating self-hatred. If a person has not become isolated from his mother or family, but has tried to do so because he considers them bad or wrong, he is likely to come to the conclusion of his own failure. A person may try to deny or suppress these feelings, but they will most likely control their life. It is necessary to uncover, acknowledge and transform these negative self-images. They are based on misperceptions and illusions, and are also the result of weak object constancy. By understanding that projections are a source of low self-esteem, a person will be able to correct them. Eliminating power games and manipulation. With the lack of natural strength that comes with the completion of psychological birth, a person is likely to resort to power plays and manipulation to get what he wants. The “drama triangle” (persecutor, rescuer and victim) is a common way of manipulating other people while remaining very passive. As soon as a person finds more effective ways of entering into cooperation with other people, the need to manipulate and control others will decline. The ability to ask for something. The easiest and most direct way to get what a person wants is to ask for it directly and politely. Then his request will be satisfied with pleasure (if, of course, this is possible for the other side). What typically happens is that people don’t ask directly (“I might need a car this evening”) and then get disappointed when they are not understood. Some ask with anger or with great indignation (“Damn it, I need a car in the evening, can I take it?”). This causes natural resistance in the one to whom they are turning, and he says “no.” Learn to feel again. Children who grow up in dysfunctional families early begin to hide their own feelings and thoughts about what is happening in their home. Most often, they hide their anger, although people in codependent relationships are angry most of the time. Anger must be “justified” in some way before it is expressed. Someone must be to blame or become a scapegoat for all the misfortunes in the family. Often inChildren find themselves in this role. As an adult, a person needs to restore the feelings that he hid in order to help himself relive his childhood. A person cannot recover from codependency without restoring his feelings. Healing the “inner child.” If a person grows up in a dysfunctional family, then he is taught to focus on what others are doing, rather than on what he himself is doing. He was forced to transform his self into a false one in order to please others. In addition, he was forced to hide his true self, including the innocence of his "inner child". The “inner child” suffered from wounds caused by the supposed care of people who loved him, who might laugh at him, disrespect him, not listen to him, physically punish him, or neglect his most important needs. To hide the pain caused, a person was forced to hide part of his “I” from the whole world and from himself. Recovery includes restoring personal integrity and healing the “inner child.” Determining one’s own psychological boundaries. Everyone has their own psychological territory. It consists of thoughts, feelings, body and behavior. Most people who come from dysfunctional families had this territory violated very often when they were children. As adults, they do not realize how this happened. Most codependents are unaware of their personal boundaries and have almost no skills in defining and protecting them. It is very important for codependent people to learn to define and effectively protect their own boundaries. How to learn intimacy. Codependents are both afraid and want intimacy. They are often afraid that close people will control them and offend them. With the destruction of codependency comes the need to establish a connection with another person. People often need new parental involvement, be it a therapist or another older person who can provide missing information, act as an interlocutor and educator, and also become a necessary support for creating object permanence and building self-esteem. Exploring new forms of relationships. Most people who have lived in codependent patterns for some time know little or nothing about the diversity of life that they are so missing. Codependency is replaced by interdependence when two or more people have learned to live autonomously in order to build a life together and strive to support the manifestation of all the best qualities in each other [13]. Evaluation of a set of methods of family psychotherapy can be carried out using the following criteria: - acceptance of the idea sobriety and upholding it by all family members; - normalization of family relationships, overcoming conflicts and the ability to constructively resolve problems that arise in the family; - restoration of the role structure of the family, which involves the optimal distribution of responsibilities for raising children, maintaining the family budget, etc.; the family’s ability to cope with relapses of the disease; - the ability to rationally use time free from work and household responsibilities; - providing family assistance to other codependent families. Thus, work with codependent families should be targeted and comprehensive. Family psychotherapy using a systematic approach plays a special role within its framework. Only the use of all possible resources allows one to achieve the desired result in psychotherapy for codependent families. CONCLUSION In connection with the current increase in the number of people who are characterized by the presence of alcohol problems, the task of preserving the psychological well-being of their relatives is becoming increasingly urgent. In this regard, work with codependent families is especially relevant. Codependency is quite closely related to a person’s somatic and mental health and.