Codependency: The social reconstruction of female experience
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Smith College Studies in Social Work
- Vol. 60 (3), 216-232
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00377319009516677
Abstract
The familiar language of codependency, while it represents an effort to name and articulate pain, has become a mythology in which the leading characters are defined as victims and as sick. This paper describes the historical evolution of the concept of codependency and discusses the dysfunctional dynamics in families that are seen as the origins of codependent behavior. An alternate language for describing such families is offered.Keywords
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- Too Good for Her Own GoodJournal of Feminist Family Therapy, 1990