Context: Malcolm Azania (born 1969), is a Kenyan-Canadian novelist, teacher, writer, and journalist who is primarily referred to by his pen name, Minister Faust. Aside from being a science fiction author, he is also a playwright, journalist, teacher, and poet., Codependency is a type of dysfunction helping relationship where one person supports or enables another person's drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement. Among the core characteristics of codependency, the most common theme is an excessive reliance on other people for approval and a sense of identity.
Given its grassroots origin, the precise definition of codependency varies based on the source but can be generally characterized as a subclinical and situational or episodic behavior similar to that of dependent personality disorder. In its broadest definition, a codependent is someone who cannot function from their innate self and whose thinking and behavior is instead organized around another person, or even a process, or substance. In this context, people who are addicted to a substance, like drugs, or a process, like gambling or sex, can also be considered codependent. In its most narrow definition, it requires one person to be physically or psychologically addicted, such as to heroin, and the second person to be psychologically dependent on that behavior. Some users of the codependency concept use the word as an alternative to using the concept of dysfunctional families, without statements that classify it as a disease., Science fiction (often shortened to SF, sci-fi or scifi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." It usually avoids the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection is now limited to hard science fiction., Time travel is the concept of movement (such as by a human) between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine, in the form of a vehicle or of a portal connecting distant points in time. Time travel is a recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, but traveling to an arbitrary point in time has a very limited support in theoretical physics, and usually only in conjunction with quantum mechanics or wormholes, also known as Einstein-Rosen bridges. In a more narrow sense, one-way time travel into the future via time dilation is a well-understood phenomenon within the frameworks of special relativity and general relativity, but advancing a large amount of time is not feasible with current technology. The concept was touched upon in various earlier works of fiction, but was popularized by H. G. Wells' 1895 novel "The Time Machine", which moved the concept of time travel into the public imagination, and it remains a popular subject in science fiction., From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain ( 2007 ) , is the title of a science fiction novel by Minister Faust . The novel is essentially a fictional self - help book for superheroes written by the character Dr. Eva Brain - Silverman a.k.a. Dr. Brain , the world 's leading therapist for the extraordinary abled , titled Unmasked ! When Being A Superhero Ca n't Save You From Yourself : Self - Help Guide for Today 's Hyper Hominids . The novel follows the adventures and therapy sessions of the members the Fantastic Order of Justice , Earth 's most powerful , and dysfunctional , superteam . Some reviewers have noted that many of the characters are parodies of characters from `` mainstream '' comic book publishers such as DC Comics and Marvel Comics and from the famous graphic novel Watchmen , itself a comic book deconstruction ., Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvementeconomically, intellectually, or emotionallyoften with a substantial psychological basis. Many different self-help group programs exist, each with its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders. Concepts and terms originating in self-help culture and Twelve-Step culture, such as recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency have become firmly integrated in mainstream language., Subject: from the notebooks of dr. brain, Relation: author, Options: (A) malcolm azania (B) one
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