Melody Beattie
| Melody Lynn Beattie | |
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| Born |
2 July 1948 St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Education | High School |
| Alma mater | Minnehaha Academy |
| Genre | Self-help books |
| Subject | Relationships |
| Notable works | Codependent No More |
| Website | |
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Melody Beattie is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.
Beattie graduated from high school with honors. She began drinking at age 12, was a full-blown alcoholic by age 13, and a junkie by 18
Beattie authored 18 other 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.
Beattie was a popularizer of science along with Janet G. Woititz and Robin Norwood regarding the work of psychiatrist Timmen L. Cermak, author of Diagnosing and Treating Co-Dependence.
All three contributed to the general emergence of the idea that addiction to a person (who was addicted to a substance or a behavioral process) was a possibility.
Codependent No More was published by the Hazelden Foundation
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.
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