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title	:	Healing the Child Within : Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
author	:	Whitfield, Charles L.
publisher	:	Health Communications, Inc.
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780932194404
ebook isbn13	:	9780585110080
language	:	English
subject	Codependency--Treatment, Self, Adult children of dysfunctional families--Medical rehabilitation.
publication date	:	1987
lcc	:	RC569.5.C63W47 1987eb
ddc	:	616.89
subject	:	Codependency--Treatment, Self, Adult children of dysfunctional families--Medical rehabilitation.

Page i Healing The Child Within Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families Charles L. Whitfield, M.D. Health Communications, Inc. Deerfield Beach, Florida

Page ii Charles L. Whitfield, M.D. Box 420487 Atlanta, GA 30342 404-843-4300 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whitfield, Charles L. Healing the child within. Bibliography: p. 1. Co-dependence (Psychology) Treatment. 2. Self. 3. Alcoholics Family relationships. 4. Children of alcoholic parents Mental health. 5. Adult child abuse victims Mental health. 1. Title. RC569.5.C63W47 1987616.8987-137 Reprinted 1989 1987 Charles L. Whitfield ISBN 0-932194-40-0 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the written permission of the publisher. Published by Health Communications, Inc. Enterprise Center 3201 Southwest 15th Street Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 Cover Design and Illustration by Reta Thomas

Page iii About The Author Charles Whitfield is a physician who specializes in helping people who are alcoholic, chemical dependent or co-dependent, and adult children of troubled or dysfunctional families. He has also worked, and continues to work on healing his own child within. Dr. Charles Whitfield is in private practice in Atlanta and is a founding board member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. He is on the faculty of Rutgers Summer School of Advanced Alcohol Studies. He is the author of the other books shown below, and lectures and does workshops nationally. To be on his mailing list for these workshops in your area, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Box 420487, Atlanta, GA 30342, (404) 843-4300. Charles Whitfield's other books include: A Gift to Myself: a personal workbook and guide to healing the child within Co-dependence: Healing the Human Condition Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self Memory and Abuse: Remembering and Healing the Wounds of Trauma Alcoholism and Spirituality (preprint form only) My Recovery Plan (three booklets on each of the stages of recovery)

Page iv Acknowledgments Special thanks to the following who read an early draft of this book and offered constructive suggestions: Herb Gravitz, Julie Bowden, Vicki Mermelstein, Rebecca Peres, Jerry Hunt, John Femino, Jeanne Harper, Barbara Ensor, Lucy Robe, John Davis, Doug Hedrick, Mary Jackson, Barry Tuchfeld, Bob Subby, and Anne Wilson Schaef. Grateful acknowledgment is given to the following for permission to reprint: Portia Nelson's "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters." Copyright Portia Nelson, 1980, reprinted The Popular Library Edition "There's a Hole in my Sidewalk," copyright 1977, permission in process. Arthur Deikman's quote from his book The Observing Self, copyright 1972 by Beacon Press, Boston. Alice Miller's quote from her book Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, copyright 1984 by Alice Miller, published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York. Bruce Fischer's illustration ''Cycle of Shame and Compulsive Behavior," copyright Bruce Fischer, 1986. American Psychiatric Association's "Severity Rating of Psychosocial Stressors," from DSM-III, copyright 1980 American Psychiatric Association. In modified form, Al-Anon Family Groups Questions for Adult Children of Alcoholics, Madison Sq. Station, New York, 1985. The poem "Please Hear What I'm Not Saying,'' copyright 1966 by Charles C. Finn. Anonymous author's poem "Afraid of Night," by permission of the author. Timmen Cermak's quotes from his book Diagnosing and Treating Co-dependence, copyright 1986 by the Johnson Institute. Dedication This book is dedicated to the Child Within each of us.

Page v Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Background of the Concept of the Child Within 5 3. What is the Child Within 9 4. Stifling the Child Within 17 5. Parental Conditions that Tend to Stifle the Child Within 25

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