Codependency Therapy Near Me
Codependency has been studied for nearly fifty years. It grew out of research on alcoholism. The term “co-alcoholic” referred to people close to someone with substance abuse issues. But the traits of codependents were described decades earlier by psychoanalyst Karen Horney (1950), a humanist in the self-actualization movement. She wrote that who individuals were alienated from their real self due to faulty parenting. Researchers ultimately discovered that the dysfunctional behavior of co-alcoholics both pre-dated and continued after the alcoholic attained sobriety. Later they found that it was also prevalent in adult children of depressed or mentally ill parents and those who grew up in dysfunctional families. Codependency was more widespread in modern society than anyone had initially realized. Codependents Anonymous was founded by two therapists in 1986 who had grown up in abusive families.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective as well as other person-centered types of therapy.