O'Gorman P
Adult Child Counseling Center, Albany, N.Y. 12208.
Psychiatr Q. 1993 Summer;64(2):199-212. doi: 10.1007/BF01065870.
This article will explore why so many women, and most recently men, have been diagnosing themselves as codependent. It will be suggested that defining codependency as learned helplessness can provide the needed conceptual base to empower those codependents who are also seeking treatment. Empowerment is needed by those women and men who grew up in the types of dysfunctional families that offer them little protection from dysfunctional family rules. The alcoholic family will be explored as one of the family systems which generates large numbers of those feeling that they are codependent. Treatment guidelines will be offered for working with codependents who also decide on a course of psychotherapy.
本文将探讨为何如此多的女性，以及最近的男性，都自我诊断为相互依赖型人格。有人认为，将相互依赖定义为习得性无助能够提供必要的概念基础，以增强那些正在寻求治疗的相互依赖型人格者的力量。那些在功能失调的家庭中成长、几乎无法从功能失调的家庭规则中获得保护的男性和女性需要获得力量。酗酒家庭将作为产生大量自我感觉为相互依赖型人格者的家庭系统之一进行探讨。还将提供针对那些决定接受心理治疗的相互依赖型人格者的治疗指南。
