Please recommend a book about codependency that is not in regards to substance abuse I would like to find a book that would be helpful to a codependent person with the following criteria.


The book focuses on relationships with needy people who don't care for themselves, instead of focusing on relationships with substance abusers.
The book emphasizes leaving and avoiding these kinds of relationships instead of helping the reader improve these relationships.
Most any book on codependency will mention substance abuse, if for no other reason than the concept began there. Treatment of codependency is about empowering the person who is the caregiver to stop that sort of behavior. The best book I can recommend (I'm a LMHC) is Codependent No More. I would also suggest looking at Attachment Theory, as some researchers believe it can encompass the problems ascribed to codependency in a wider-reaching theoretical approach. To that end you might read Attached.