Not a formal psychiatric diagnosis, codependency has come to be a useful term for discussing aspects of family dysfunction, particularly among participants in recovery groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon.
In clinical literature, codependency is said to develop from a person's childhood attempts to adapt to dysfunctional family life e.g., life in which parenting is abusive, neglectful, inconsistent, or otherwise seriously ineffective.
America will continue to be the world's image factory, but this is an era of codependency.
Peña Nieto has many reasons for wanting to reëvaluate his country's posture in the drug war — and its codependency with the United States.
It was, in fact, only a great codependency: the (Damn) Yankees won and the (doomed) Red Sox lost — in increasingly melodramatic ways.
Each time it sounded, the motif, which is really a jingle, iterated one of the show's underlying themes: the stimulating, infuriating codependency of its central character, Robert Neil Patrick Harriss), a bachelor celebrating his 35th birthday, and his closest friends: five married couples who are constantly pecking at him and at one another.
"It's beyond codependency," said Lee H. Berke, the president and chief executive of a sports media consulting company.
But at the local level, the codependency of the church and the cartels often endures.
Treading warily into territory that few dramas dare to explore, "Fly Away" is a defiantly unsentimental look at the complex codependency between a harried single mother and her severely autistic daughter.
In that film within the film two siblings grapple with codependency and post-traumatic stress disorder after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
