Are you in a Co-dependent Relationship?

Polina Ievleva is the guest in this Supernova’s episode. She is a Russian psychologist who will tell us more about what co-dependent behaviour is. She obtained a master's degree in psychology from Voronezh State University and has been a private practitioner for fifteen years of the gestalt-therapy approach as well as teaching psychotherapy to psychologists for the last twelve years. She is a Gestalt therapy trainer and supervisor of Moscow Gestalt Institute, co-creator of the teaching course "Gestalt approach to dependent behaviours".

 

In this episode, Marco and Alessandro discuss with Polina the basic notions to understand the co-dependent behaviour. She will share with us tips to understand how we can end up in a situation like this, how this dynamic can arise and what are the ways to eventually stop it.   

 

Thanks to the many examples offered by Polina, we will understand this thematic better and realize that we can find this situation in real life more often than we think.

 

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If you are curious about today’s topic you can find more info on any of these links:  

 

● https://gestalt.ru/author/polina.go/

 

● https://gestalt.ru/special_cource/onlajn-spetskurs-geshtalt-podhod-v-rabote-s-zavisimostyu/

 

● "Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself" by Melody Beattie

 

● "The Flight from Intimacy: Healing Your Relationship of Counter-dependence - The Other Side of Co-dependency" by Janae B. Weinhold, Barry K. Weinhold

 

● The Spann-Fischer Codependency Scale (SF CDS) from Measuring codependency. "Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly Fischer" J. L., Spann L., & Crawford, D ( https://www.midss.org/sites/default/files/spann-fischer.pdf)

 

 

Produced by: Rosa Duran and Marco Germinario