Books by Melody Beattie and Complete Book Reviews
Melody Beattie, Author HarperOne $14.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-251118-8
In 1986, Beattie's Codependent No More spoke with a previously unheard voice, naming and describing a dysfunctional way of living that many people identified with but that had never before been publicly acknowledged or understood. Breaking that new...
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Melody Beattie, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-06-255418-5
Adult children of alcoholics and drug abusers will want to peruse this encouraging sequel to Beattie's groundbreaking book on the dynamics of codependency ( Codependent No More ). She focuses here on the process of recovering from the self-defeating
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Melody Beattie, Author HarperOne $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-251119-5
In 1996, Beattie, a well-known articulator of the recovery movement (Co-Dependent No More), embarks on a trip to the Middle East. Inspired by an unformed yet powerful intuition that her life and her understanding are moving to a higher level, she...
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Melody Beattie, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (270p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0192-6
Bestseller Beattie, of Codependent No More fame, revisits the topic she helped introduce more than 15 years ago, armed with more insight and a good deal of new scholarship, revising several old opinions and offering new perspectives on emotional...
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Melody Beattie, Author HarperOne $18 (225p) ISBN 978-0-06-251072-3
Beattie ( Codependent No More ) here chronicles her grief over the death of her son Shane in a skiing accident in 1991; for two years she found herself unable to work. But with the help of family, friends and her own inner resources, she was finally
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Melody Beattie, Author, Jennifer Schnider, Author, John Abbott, Author Ballantine Books $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-37455-4
Codependency, according to Beattie ( Beyond Codependency ), is an addictive behavior pattern in which a person ``lets another's behavior affect him or her, and . . . is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.'' These essays are directed at
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