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Melody Beattie

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Education and career
Ideas
References
External links

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}}{{Infobox writer
| name = Melody Lynn Beattie
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1948|7|2}}
| birth_place = St. Paul, Minnesota
| death_date =
| education = High School
| alma_mater = Minnehaha Academy
| genre = Self-help books
| subject = Relationships
| notableworks = Codependent No More
| awards =
| website = {{official URL}}
}}

Melody Beattie is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.

Education and career

Born Melody Vaillancourt in Minneapolis, Beattie graduated from high school with honors. She began drinking at age 12, was a full-blown alcoholic by age 13, and a junkie by 18^[1]

Beattie authored 18 other books including Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go and Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have into What You Want, published in 2010. Several of her books have been published in other languages.

Ideas

Beattie was a popularizer of science along with Janet G. Woititz and Robin Norwood regarding the work of psychiatrist Timmen L. Cermak, author of Diagnosing and Treating Co-Dependence.^[2]

Janet G. Woitit's Adult Children of Alcoholics had come out in 1983 and sold two million copies while being on the New York Times best seller list for forty-eight weeks.^[2]
Robin Norwood's Women Who Love Too Much, 1985, sold two and a half million copies and spawned Twelve Step groups across the country for women "addicted" to men.^[2]
Melody Beattie popularized the concept of codependency in 1986 with the book Codependent No More which sold eight million copies.^[3]

All three contributed to the general emergence of the idea that addiction to a person (who was addicted to a substance or a behavioral process) was a possibility.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}

Codependent No More was published by the Hazelden Foundation^[4]

Beattie's early works also served as the first the Big Book for a 12-Step program called Co-Dependents Anonymous. Although "CoDA" now has a conference-approved (official) '"the Big Book" of its own, Beattie's works continue to be central texts in some CoDA meetings.^[5]

References

1. ^{{cite web|last1=Beattie|first1=Melody|title=About author|url=http://melodybeattie.com/about-2/|website=melodybeattie.com|accessdate=August 11, 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812075219/http://melodybeattie.com/about-2/|archivedate=August 12, 2015|df=}}
2. ^¹²{{cite book|last=Travis|first=Trish|title=The Language of the Heart, A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey|year=2009|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|isbn=978-0-8078-3319-3|page=168}}
3. ^J. S. Rice, A Disease of One's Own (1998) p. 2
4. ^Taking Care of Herself - TIME
5. ^Co-dependent no more celebrates 20th anniversary. | Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly (, 2007)

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