Janet G. Woititz

Janet G. Woititz (c. 1939 – June 7, 1994) was an American psychologist and researcher best known for her writings and lectures about the adult children of alcoholic parents., Including the 1983 book, Adult Children of Alcoholics. Woititz was born in Great Neck, New York and earned a bachelor's degree from Antioch College and a master's at Montclair State College (since renamed to Montclair State University). In 1976 she received her doctorate at Rutgers University, where during summer she taught at the Rutgers Center for Alcoholic Studies. In 1983, Health Communications published her book, Adult Children of Alcoholics, which was translated into six languages and also was a best-seller until 1987. In 1985 she published a book called Struggle for Intimacy, of which nearly one million copies were sold in the first year.

She died on June 7, 1994, at the age of 55, at her home in Roseland, New Jersey.

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