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Author Rice, John Steadman.

Title A disease of one's own : psychotherapy, addiction, and the emergence of co-dependency / John Steadman Rice
Published New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [1996]
©1996

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Description viii, 253 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Co-Dependency, Discourse, and Cultural Change -- 2. A Genealogy of Co-Dependency: Truth Rules and the Twelve-Step Subculture -- 3. The Anatomy of Co-Dependency -- 4. A New Theory of Addiction -- 5. Addiction and Analogy -- 6. Becoming Co-Dependent: Conversion, Ritual, and Obligation -- 7. Recovery -- 8. The Ironies and Consequences of Cultural Change -- Conclusion: A Disease of One's Own -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: Key CoDA Readings
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Codependency -- Social aspects -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1970- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139948
LC no. 95037866
ISBN 0765804549
1560002417 (alk. paper)