Anything Quote by Melody Beattie

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

— Melody Beattie

“A therapist who fears dependence will tell his patient, sometimes openly, that the urge to rely is pathologic. In doing so he denigrates a…

— Thomas Lewis

“Later on, I see how often therapists keep patients coming to them, not so much for the benefit of the patients but to satisfy…

— Marie Balter

“People who are dependent live accordingly to the lives and needs of others, and are emotionally blocked from journeying down the road of self-actualisation,…

— The power of negative thinking Tony Humphreys pg 60

Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy…

— Otto Rank

“Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.”

— Gary Hopkins

“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.”

— Michael Adzema

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

— Joseph Addison

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

— Wangari Maathai

I don't know how people can live without a therapist.

— Neve Campbell