What is codependence? Where does it come from? How does it sabotage your life, or the lives of your parishioners or clients? In this new resource, Pia Mellody identifies codependent behavior and traces its origin back to childhood, describing a horrendous range of emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and sexual abuses. And she outlines effective recovery therapy that enables codependents to re-parent themselves. 224 pages, paper from Harper & Row.
Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their origin to emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical and sexual abuses that occur in childhood. Central to Mellody's approach is the concept that the codependent adult's injured inner child needs healing. Recovery from codependence, therefore, involves clearing up the toxic emotions left over from these painful childhood experiences.
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