Breaking Free of the Co-Dependency Trap

Janae B. Weinhold · Barry K. Weinhold=

Sep 2010 · New World Library

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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.

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Dr. Janae Weinhold is a professional counselor and a former adjunct professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She and her husband, Dr. Barry Weinhold, founded the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution & Creative Leadership (CICRCL). In addition to almost sixty years combined teaching experience, the Weinholds have served for over five decades as licensed mental health professionals, specializing in the areas of developmental psychology, trauma, violence prevention, conflict resolution, cosmologies, and consciousness studies. They live in Asheville, North Carolina.

A licensed psychologist, Dr. Barry Weinhold is professor emeritus and former chair of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Counseling and Human Services Program. He and his wife, Dr. Janae Weinhold, founded the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution & Creative Leadership (CICRCL). In addition to almost sixty years combined teaching experience, the Weinholds have served for over five decades as licensed mental health professionals, specializing in the areas of developmental psychology, trauma, violence prevention, conflict resolution, cosmologies, and consciousness studies. They live in Asheville, North Carolina.