This book may be used as map for therapist and adult children on the road to recovery from co-dependency. Development issues are addressed, patterns of substitute behaviour 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 decision made by mistreated children.
Sometimes the pain of crying out these life-repressing decisions becomes so overwhelming that they try to self -medicate it. The resulting addictive or compulsive substitute behaviours, which represent a denial of what their inner child really needs, typically make the situation even more unmanageable. Even through co-dysfunctional patterns, they recognise that their lives aren’t working and come for help. In therapy co-dependence can gain permission, information and modelling in order to learn what children who grow up in healthy families naturally learn. Through this learned corrective parenting the inner child can be healed.
Authors: Laurie Weiss and Jonathan B.Weiss
Publishers: Health Communications
Date of Publication: 1989
No. of pages: 220