Codependency is an important psychological aspect of the
workplace that adversely affects both those who experience
codependency and those who are the subject of the codependent's
compelling agenda of interpersonal control. In this important book,
Seth Allcorn explores codependency in the workplace beginning with
its origins in the family. Many new insights are provided about the
characteristic self-defeating and paradoxical patterns of thinking,
feeling, and action that also impoverish those who work with the
codependent. The author develops important new theoretical
perspectives and models of codependency by drawing upon
psychoanalytic theory. The three faces of codependency are
described for the first time and a sophisticated psychodynamic
model of the psychological gridlock of codependency explains the
codependent's self-defeating and interpersonally destructive agenda
of control. Allcorn concludes his book with ideas about how
managers can deal more effectively with the presence of
codependency in their organization.
The author begins by defining codependency and uses a model to
explain how it arises in pathological families of origin. He then
describes three faces of codependency and relates them to fourteen
common behavior attributes and the workplace. Allcorn explores how
this disorder manifests itself in different genders and situations,
outlines a learning model and a Family Pathology Matrix, and shows
how different pairings of parental behavior contribute to the
development of the three faces of codependency. The difficulties
which codependency introduces into the workplace is a primary
focus, and the book concludes with a search for solutions within
the organizational culture that may alleviate the need for
codependent defenses and lead to one-on-one interventions at work.
This book will be of interest to employee assistance staff,
training personnel, counselors and therapists, consultants, and
students of the psychodynamics of organizational life.
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