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codependency, n. Psychoanal. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
Brit. |ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛnd(ə)nsi|, U.S. |ˈˌkoʊdəˈpɛnd(ə)nsi|
[‹ co- prefix + dependency n.]
Excessive emotional or psychological reliance on another person (typically a partner or close relative), esp. one with an illness or addiction requiring care or support; reciprocal dependence on another's neediness.
1979S. Smalley Co-dependency (transcript of unpubl. lecture) Co-dependency is very widespread in the United States of America. 1982S. Smalley Co-dependency 3 Co-dependency..is the distressful way some people have learned to cope with life. It can become a total way of life that seems to make people more dependent on things outside themselves than they really have to be. 1989Sun (Brisbane) 7 Mar. 13/1 Co-dependency is obsessional behavior which may include love addiction, sex addiction, and most of all, shame. 1991D. Stafford & L. Hodgkinson Codependency 133 Addiction studies have shown that all forms of compulsive behaviour—eating disorders, compulsive gambling, sexaholism, alcoholism, spendaholism—are external manifestations of underlying codependency. 2001Guardian (Nexis) 26 May (Saturday Review section) 9 He and Katie loathe one another, but are prevented from separation by Tom and Molly, their two children, and by what one might call mutual habitual codependency. |