Codependency Conspiracy: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge ofYour Life

Katz, Stan J.; Liu, Aimee

ISBN 10: 0446393770 / ISBN 13: 9780446393775

Published by Warner Books, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Codependency Conspiracy: How to Break the Recovery Habit and Take Charge ofYour Life
• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446393770
• ISBN 13: 9780446393775
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This explosive program redefines addiction, codependency, and self-help. Using the author's clinical experiences, it shows how self-help methods can actually promote dependency, and offers options as well as positive, proven strategies for finding helpful therapies.

From Library Journal

Katz and Liu, coauthors of False Love and Other Romantic Illusions ( LJ 9/15/88) and The Success Trap (Ticknor & Fields, 1990), paint a damning picture of the self-help movement and its leaders. Stating that codependency "is not a disease but, at best, an idea and, at worst, a scam," the authors contend that 12-Step programs and codependency recovery groups promote lifelong dependency and victim behavior at the expense of self-discipline in solving life's problems. However, the authors' research seems limited to Katz's own experiences as a therapist. Katz and Liu offer an alternative, detailed, ten-step plan for identifying and attacking problems. While they fail to acknowledge that many people derive positive benefits from the 12-Step program, their book is the only one this reviewer has seen that provides an alternative view. Consider for large self-help collections.
-Linda S. Greene, Chicago P.L.
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