She especially enjoys working with couples where she incorporates Pia Mellody's model of codependence with Terry Real's Relationship Empowerment Therapy (RLT). (healingtraumanetwork.net)
Dr. Cobb introduces a series of three articles on psychotherapy: Critiquing Codependence Theory and Reimaging Psychotherapy: A Process — Relational Exploration by Mary Elizabeth Moore; The Clinical Use of Whitehead's Anthropology by David E. Roy; Process Relational Psychotherapy: Creatively transforming relationships by Robert Brizee. (religion-online.org)
You see, as the cartoon suggests, it means cutting that string, that string of unhealthy codependence, manipulation, and control that nurtures immaturity. (nakedpastor.com)