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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. M. Wade
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
A must read for all those (like I did) who believe that addiction is an illness or decease. Don't waste your money on expensive therapists or the 12 steps programme! There are no excuses, it's down to you. This book shows you how.. It's long over due a reprint.
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Common sense that's not so common
27 May 2003
By Rex Reads
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
A good straightforward corrective to the gooey, new agey codependency stuff. Great if you want to take responsibility and quit your bad habits and choices without spending the rest of your life on your knees. Remember will power, at last it's coming back in style.Summed up,quit the instant gratification bs., learn some saleable skills, learn to relate to people honestly and responsibly and choose reasonable goals.A good one to read and reread until you (I) get it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The Codependent Codependent
4 Feb 2012
By Bradley P. Hayton
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Addiction has been big business for years, but as everyone who does therapy with addicts, they make terrible clients. They deny their problem, and don't want therapy. But their wives (since alcoholics are mostly men) love therapy, feel responsible for their husband's alcoholism, and thus make great clients! Thus, the codependent was born. Therapists have a huge financial incentive to characterize everyone as a codependent. Since everyone is addicted to something, then everyone is a codependent to someone.
This is the essence of Katz and Liu's thesis. They believe that the codependency movement promotes real dependency under the guise of recovery. They point out the key distinctions between self-help groups, and what they characterize as "mutual support groups." As opposed to the psychobabble of self-help groups, mutual support groups offer friendship. Like Peele, these authors blame the root of the problem on the disease model of behavior problems, especially when applied to addicts and victims. Unlike Peele, who tends to rely upon research studies regarding treatment effectiveness, these authors examine the logical inconsistencies, absurdities, paradoxes, and deceitfulness of the movement's ideology and techniques. In fact, they claim that the movement itself creates codependence. The authors don't merely criticize the movement, however. Two-thirds of their book outlines a more existential treatment program that concentrates on present behaviors, personal responsibility, and meaning. Their program is a healthy alternative to those who feel uncomfortable about the addiction and codependency models of self-help.
This is the essence of Katz and Liu's thesis. They believe that the codependency movement promotes real dependency under the guise of recovery. They point out the key distinctions between self-help groups, and what they characterize as "mutual support groups." As opposed to the psychobabble of self-help groups, mutual support groups offer friendship. Like Peele, these authors blame the root of the problem on the disease model of behavior problems, especially when applied to addicts and victims. Unlike Peele, who tends to rely upon research studies regarding treatment effectiveness, these authors examine the logical inconsistencies, absurdities, paradoxes, and deceitfulness of the movement's ideology and techniques. In fact, they claim that the movement itself creates codependence. The authors don't merely criticize the movement, however. Two-thirds of their book outlines a more existential treatment program that concentrates on present behaviors, personal responsibility, and meaning. Their program is a healthy alternative to those who feel uncomfortable about the addiction and codependency models of self-help.
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Practical, sequential exercises for reflection, assessment, action.
9 Feb 2013
By S. G. Stark
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I ordered the book because of what another Amazon survey said: that the anti-codependency theory and chapters are interesting; but the gold is the last 3/4 of the book -- practical exercises. For one like me who wanted to take a specific set of painful issues and work them through to some practical plan for resolution and then follow those steps, this book was very, very useful.
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