Recovery from Co-Dependency

About the Book

Recovery From Co-dependency: It's Never Too Late To Reclaim Your Childhood by Laurie Weiss and Jonathan B. Weiss

This book may be used as a map for therapists and Adult Children on the road to recovery from Co-Dependency. Developmental issues are addressed, patterns of substitute behavior are identified and a treatment plan to meet the needs of the Inner Child is created.

Adult Children are in the position of trying to manage their adult lives on the basis of decisions made by mistreated children. Sometimes the pain of carrying out these life-repressing decisions becomes so overwhelming that they try to self-medicate it. The resulting addictive or compulsive substitute behaviors, which represent a denial of what their Inner Child really needs, typically make the situation even more unmanageable. Even though Co-Dependents are usually unaware of the source of their own dysfunctional patterns, they recognize that their lives aren't working and come for help.

In therapy Co-dependents can gain permission, information and modeling in order to learn what is naturally learned by children who grow up in healthy families. Through this corrective parenting the Inner Child can be healed.

About the Author

Laurie Weiss, Ph.D., and Jonathan B. Weiss, Ph.D., have worked together as psychotherapists, marriage counselors and management consultants since 1971. Married in 1960, they have two grown children. Personally and professionally, they have experienced, studied and taught about the growth and development of healthy, interdependent relationships. Most of their therapy clients are Adult Children of dysfunctional families.