Melody Beattie
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Melody Lynn Beattie | |
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| Born | July 2, 1948 St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Education | High School |
| Alma mater | Minnehaha Academy |
| Genre | Self-help books |
| Subject | Relationships |
| Notable works | Codependent No More |
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| melodybeattie | |
Melody Beattie is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.
Education and career[edit]
Born Melody Vaillancourt in Minneapolis, Beattie graduated from high school with honors. She began drinking at age 12, was an alcoholic by age 13, and a drug addict by 18.[1]
Beattie published 18 books including Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go and Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have into What You Want, published in 2010. Several of her books have been published in other languages.
Ideas[edit]
Beattie, along with Janet G. Woititz and Robin Norwood, were popularizers of science, helping to digest and explain the work of psychiatrist Timmen L. Cermak, author of Diagnosing and Treating Co-Dependence.[2] Beattie popularized the concept of codependency in 1986 with Codependent No More, which sold eight million copies.[3]
Codependent No More was published by the Hazelden Foundation[4]
Beattie's early works also served as the first the Big Book for a 12-Step program called Co-Dependents Anonymous. Although "CoDA" now has a conference-approved (official) '"the Big Book" of its own, Beattie's works continue to be central texts in some CoDA meetings.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Beattie, Melody. "About author". melodybeattie.com. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ^ Travis, Trish (2009). The Language of the Heart, A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-8078-3319-3.
- ^ J. S. Rice, A Disease of One's Own (1998) p. 2
- ^ Taking Care of Herself – TIME
- ^ Co-dependent no more celebrates 20th anniversary. | Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly (, 2007)
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