This explosive program redefines addiction, codependency, and self-help. Using the author's clinical experiences, it shows how self-help methods can actually promote dependency, and offers options as well as positive, proven strategies for finding helpful therapies.

Now, for the first time, a prominent psychologist speaks out against the addiction/recovery movement, and teaches readers how to stop seeing themselves as codependent victims and how to start taking charge of their lives. Dr. Katz argues that most codependent programs, rather than promoting recovery, merely promote dependence under the guise of self-help.