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Psychology Assignment | Codependency and its Theories

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Psychology Assignment | Codependency and its Theories

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Running head: CODEPENDENCYCodependencyName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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2CODEPENDENCYCodependency and its theoriesCodependency is one of the highly contested construct featuring in popular literature,academic research and in clinical arenas (Wegscheider-Cruse & Cruse, 2012). The term can bedefined by stating it is an extremely emotional reliance on an addiction in this context thatrequires immense support. In another way, the ‘Co’ can be considered as ‘mutual’ or‘togetherness’ and the other part of the term is ‘dependent’ that rightly justifies the term. Manypeople tried to conceptualize the term ‘codependency’ as an illness or maladaptive behavior thatcan be developed as a result of living with or being close to substance dependence.Codependency can be said as an addiction disorder that results from people’s failed attempts tocontrol external things or events. Codependency can be seen as a disease noting the addictiveprocess. On the other hand, it can also be said that, codependency is a disease of a lost self andafter the recovery process the affected gets back or recovers his or her own self (Lancer, 2015). Charles Whitfield’s theories were supported from the idea of an alcoholic family dynamicwhere an alcoholic individual marries a person who is not chemically dependent on anysubstances serves as a helper in, and also an inadvertent contributor to the maintenance of theaddicted individual’s problem of drinking (Amaro, 2012). The theories of codependency wasthus predicted by Whitfield from the related concepts of family system’s theory that might haveincluded the family homeostasis by interlocking the family pathology, marital pro quo, maritalcodependency and one down marital relationships. On the other hand, the popular usage of theterm codependency among the commoners through some self help literature had positiveconsequences to get the idea of codependency for Charles Whitfield.
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