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''Codependent No More'' is the debut book of self-help author Melody Beattie. It was originally published in 1986 by the publishing division of the Hazelden Foundation, and became a phenomenon of the self-help movement, going on to sell over eight million copies, six million copies of them in the United States. Melody Beattie popularized the phenomenon of codependency through the dramatic success of her bestseller.〔J. S. Rice, ''A Disease of One's Own'' (1998) p. 2〕 The subtitle of the book offers a hint at the apparent contradiction that accompanies codependency: ''How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself''.〔David Hawkins, ''Breaking Everday Addictions'' (2008) p. 180〕 ==History of term== The term codependent originated as a way to describe people who use relationships with others as their sole source of value and identity, and built on the experience of Alcoholics Anonymous that the addict's problem could be compounded by the enabling role of those who made up their network.〔Lennard J. Davis, ''Obsession: A History'' (London 2008) p. 178〕 Beattie maintained in her bestseller that a codependent is a person who believes their happiness is derived from other people or one person in particular, eventually becoming obsessed with controlling the behavior of the people/person that they believe is making them happy: hence codependents often end up in relationships with drug (including alcohol) addicted spouses or lovers. Similar to Bill Wilson's Alcoholics Anonymous five decades earlier, Beattie's early work took the previously complex object relations theory and interpersonal theories of psychoanalysts like Heinz Kohut, Wilfred Bion and Otto Kernberg and put them in language the average reader could easily grasp. The book also re-phrased many of the notions expressed in the Al-Anon Twelve-step program movement into more modern language, and made the notion of addiction to a person (who was addicted to a substance or a behavioral process) part of the western cultural lexicon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Codependent No More」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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