Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
10 best books like Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time (Melody Beattie): The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have, Adult Children of Alcoholics, It Will Never Happen to Me!, The Dance of Deception: A Guide to Authenticity and Truth-Telling in Women's Relationships, Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives, Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition), Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem, Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction
| Author | Patricia Evans |
| ISBN | 1558505822 |
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important,...
| Author | Ellen Bass |
| ISBN | 0061284335 |
Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual...
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 0684844958 |
From grief and mourning to aging and relationships, poet and Redbook contributor Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go.
Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy...
| Author | Janet Geringer Woititz |
| ISBN | 1558741127 |
In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics....
| Author | Claudia Black |
| ISBN | 0345345940 |
Dr. Black's analysis of ACOA's is pretty dead on. Coming from a home with an alcoholic parent I found myself relating a lot to what she says in her book. While I do think a lot of it is very - how do you say? - surface stuff, I understand the need for it considering it's meant to be sold to a wide amount of people....
The Dance of Deception: A Guide to Authenticity and Truth-Telling in Women's Relationships
| Author | Harriet Lerner |
| ISBN | 0060924632 |
When The Dance of Deceptionwas published, Lerner discovered that women were not eager to identify with the subject. "Well, I don't do deception" was a common resonse.
We all "do deception", often with the intention to protect ourselves and the relationships we depend on. The Dance of Deceptionunravels...
| Author | Pia Mellody |
| ISBN | 0062505890 |
Revised and Updated With Over 600,000 Copies Sold
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...
| Author | Charles L. Whitfield |
| ISBN | 0932194400 |
Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published. Here, frontline physician and therapist Charles Whitfield describes the process of wounding...
| Author | John Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 1558744274 |
Based on the public television series of the same name, Bradshaw On: The Family is John Bradshaw's seminal work on the dynamics of families that has sold more than a million copies since its original publication in 1988. Within its pages, you will discover the cause of emotionally impaired families....
Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction
| Author | Patrick J. Carnes |
| ISBN | 0553351389 |
"Dr. Patrick Carnes is a creative, pioneering, and courageous human being. His books are changing the lives of thousands!"
"I lost three marriages, all because of affairs." "I became suicidal because of multiple intense involvements."
"I spent money on...
The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0465045855 |
More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children....
| Author | Al-Anon Family Groups |
Altho it's been 30 years since I read this book it has helped me get thru many life problems. I was a "Lone Member" when I first read it. And, altho my alcoholic & I have since divorced, I find myself following the wisdom in my everyday life. I do have a friend who is an alcoholic, but in denial, & I am...
| Author | Janet Geringer Wotitiz |
| ISBN | 0932194257 |
What am i doing right now? Eating packets of taco bell hot sauce until my mouth feels like its going to act like the southern states in the civil war and run away by secession for a little while or something... best simile ever, right guys? Cuz that like so totally shows that I know like a lot about American...
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
| Author | Alcoholics Anonymous |
Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0916856011 / 9780916856014
Originally published in 1952, this classic book is used by A.A. members and groups around the world. Bill W.'s 24 essays on the Steps and the Traditions discuss the principles by which A.A. members recover...
An Adult Child's Guide to What's Normal
| Author | John C. Friel |
| ISBN | 1558740902 |
You have begun to deal with the pain and trauma of being raised in a dysfunctional family and now you are ready to lead a healthy life. But:
Do you know what healthy people do?
Do you know what is “normal”?
Do you know how to ask unwanted guests to leave?
In An Adult...
| Author | Bryn C. Collins |
| ISBN | 0809229145 |
Psychologist Bryn Collins opens up the discussion about life with emotionally unavailable partners. She begins by unequivocally stating that you are not the problem. Collins uses solution-focused skills to help you identify, cope with, and change these painful associations and teaches you how...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0916856046 |
Living Sober is an extremely informative book which does not offer a plan for getting sober but does offer us sound advice about how to stay sober.
Living Sober is an extremely informative book which does not offer a plan for getting sober but does offer us sound advice about how to stay sober....
