Co-Dependence Healing the Human Condition

Co-Dependence Healing the Human Condition
Author: Charles Whitfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0757310737

Of all the books on the often misunderstood concept of co-dependence, this is probably the clearest, most complete and informative. Charles Whitfield is a frontline clinician who has been assisting co-dependents in their healing for over twenty years. He has researched the literature on co-dependence, which he summarizes in this widely read book. He sees co-dependence as a way to more accurately describe the painful and confusing part of the human condition. In careful detail he describes just what co-dependence is and what it is not, how it comes about, and how to heal its painful aftereffects.

Codependent No More

Codependent No More
Author: Melody Beattie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2009-06-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1592857922

In a crisis, it's easy to revert to old patterns. Caring for your well-being during the coronavirus pandemic includes maintaining healthy boundaries and saying no to unhealthy relationships. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else's, you may be codependent--and you may find yourself in this book--Codependent No More. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency--charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness. Melody Beattie is the author of Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go, Stop Being Mean to Yourself, The Codependent No More Workbook and Playing It by Heart.

Healing the Child Within

Healing the Child Within
Author: Charles Whitfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0757397573

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 that the Child Within (True Self) experiences and shows how to differentiate the True Self from the false self. He also describes the core issues of recovery and more. Other writings on this topic have come and gone, while Healing the Child Within has remained a strong introduction to recognizing and healing from the painful effects of childhood trauma. Highly recommended by therapists and survivors of trauma.

Boundaries and Relationships

Boundaries and Relationships
Author: Charles Whitfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0757393306

More than personal boundaries, this book is really about relationships--healthy and unhealthy ones. Here bestselling author and psychotherapist Charles Whitfield blends theories and dynamics from several disciplines into practical knowledge and actions that your can use in your relationships right now. This comprehensive book opens with clear definitions and descriptions of boundaries, a self-assessment survey and a history of our accumulated knowledge. Going deeper, it describes the 10 essential areas of human interaction wherein you can improve your relationships. These include age regression, giving and receiving (projection and projective identification), triangles, core recovery issues, basic dynamics, unfinished business and spirituality. It shows in countless practical ways how knowledge of each of these is most useful in your recovery and everyday life.

Breaking Free of the Co-Dependency Trap

Breaking Free of the Co-Dependency Trap
Author: Janae B. Weinhold
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-09-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1577318382

This bestselling book, now in a revised edition, radically challenges the prevailing medical definition of co-dependency as a permanent, progressive, and incurable addiction. Rather, the authors identify it as the result of developmental traumas that interfered with the infant-parent bonding relationship during the first year of life. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Barry and Janae Weinhold correlate the developmental causes of co-dependency with relationship problems later in life, such as establishing and maintaining boundaries, clinging and dependent behaviors, people pleasing, and difficulty achieving success in the world. Then they focus on healing co-dependency, providing compelling case histories and practical activities to help readers heal early trauma and transform themselves and their primary relationships.

Codependence

Codependence
Author: Robert Burney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 127
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780964838314

Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls has been called "one of the truly transformational works of our time" - and it's author Robert Burney referred to as "a metaphysical Stephen Hawking." A therapist and Spiritual Teacher whose work has been compared to John Bradshaw's "except much more spiritual" and described as "taking inner child healing to a new level" - Robert postulates in his book that Codependence (i.e. outer or external dependence) has been the Human Condition. He believes that we have now entered a new Age of Healing and Joy in which it is possible to heal the planet through healing our relationships with self. The author combines Twelve Step Recovery Principles, Metaphysical Truth, and Native American Spirituality with quantum physics and molecular biology in presenting his belief that we are all connected, we are all extensions of the Divine, and that ultimately Love is our True essence. He considers spirituality to be a word that describes one's relationship with life - and anyone (who is not completely closed minded) can apply the approach he shares in this book to help them transform their experience of life into an easier, more Loving and enjoyable journey.

Prodependence

Prodependence
Author: Robert Weiss
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 075732035X

"Prodependence," a new psychological term created by Robert Weiss to describe healthy interdependence in the modern world, turns this around. Rather that preaching detachment and distance over continued bonding and assistance, as so many therapists, self-help books, and 12-step groups currently do, prodependence celebrates the human need for and pursuit of intimate connection, viewing this as a positive force for change. Simply stated, prodependence occurs when attachment relationships are mutually beneficial--with one person's strengths filling in the weak points of the other, and vice versa. And this can occur even when an addiction is present

My Recovery

My Recovery
Author: Charles L. Whitfield
Publisher: HCI
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-08-31
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780757301209

To get somewhere it is useful to know where you are going. This can be especially difficult for people struggling with issues of addiction, compulsion, physical or mental illness. In this simple yet effective three-part program, best-selling author Charles Whitfield helps readers chart their own treatment plan and find a way out of the often confusing vortex of recovery work. Through illustrative charts and graphics he shows readers how to write their own recovery plan, including how to identify core issues and how to integrate those issues into a personalized plan. Stage one helps readers identify the illness or condition that plagues them and explains how recovery truly is within reach of those who participate in a full recovery program. Stage two explains how healing requires the reader to consider their adult child of trauma issues, such as co-dependence. It describes the way out of the pain and confusion-learning self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-responsibility and self-reflection. Stage three addresses more keys to success including having a healthy and nourishing spirituality and learning to live in the present moment, no longer burdened by the past or fearing the future. My Recovery Plan is an empowering book; it will give readers hope and instill the knowledge that they can, indeed, recover.

Wisdom to Know the Difference

Wisdom to Know the Difference
Author: Charles L. Whitfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781935827108

Wisdom to Know the Difference. This book addresses in detail these common Core Issues in Relationships, Recovery and Living, how they come about and choices and solutions to use them to your advantage, heal and experience peace. Needing to be in control Diculty trusting Diculty being real How to handle feelings Low self-esteem (shame) Dependence versus Independence Fear of abandonment All-or-none thinking and behaving High tolerance for inappropriate behavior Over-responsibility for others Neglecting my own needs Grieving my ungrieved hurts, losses and traumas Diculty resolving conict Diculty giving and receiving love Based on over 35-years of clinical experience assisting people with addictions, trauma survivors and people with various problems in living, Dr. Whiteld describes how to identify and handle each core issue. Dr. Whitfield lives and practices in Atlanta, GA. He has been voted by his peers, since 1993, as one of the Best Doctors in America, and has been a guest researcher and consultant at the CDC since 1998.

Not Crazy

Not Crazy
Author: Charles L. Whitfield
Publisher: Muse House Press/Pennington
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781935827023

Psychiatry today is not as advertised, as bestselling author Charles Whitfield describes in this scientifically accurate new book. It exposes the pseudo science behind modern biological psychiatry that misdiagnoses people who have painful emotional, psychological and behavioral symptoms as being mentally ill and then mistreats them with toxic psychiatric drugs that don t work well or make them worse. Dr Whitfield blows the whistle on and names the culprits that promote bio-psychiatry for profit and control and explains why and how to avoid their mind- and body- manipulations. Most of these culprits are the Bigs, which include Big Pharma, Big Government, Big Insurance, Big Academia and Big Professional groups (as the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness). Each of the Bigs promotes and supports the misdiagnosis and mistreatment of what they call mental illness, which Dr Whitfield documents is instead the painful effects of repeated childhood and later trauma, which he explains in some detail. Throughout he describes how this major problem has developed and how to heal from it.