Addiction and Codependency. A Dialogue on the Path to Freedom

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This book combines a personal story and a professional perspective: a family psychologist who has encountered chemical dependency in close people offers not a ready-made “treatment course,” but a clear way to structure a conversation. Bringing back a common language in the family—learning to hear each other and speak in a way that doesn’t destroy the dialogue but supports it—becomes an important support on the path to recovery.

Tatyana Osina is a family psychologist with over 25 years of experience. Over the years of practice, she has helped more than 10,000 clients, and her talks and lectures on YouTube have garnered tens and hundreds of thousands of views. Her key topic is co-dependency: Tatyana shows how to build a healthy model of communication in which spouses, children, and relatives learn to respect boundaries, hear each other, and participate together in restoring the entire family system.

Tatyana came to this profession through her own life path—overcoming her husband’s and son’s dependency. That experience became a turning point: it changed her взгляды, lifestyle, and determined the choice of her work. In the book, she shares personal conclusions and cases from extensive practice, deriving a “recovery formula” and emphasizing separately the role of a developing dialogue as its central element.

Inside you will find answers to questions:
— what the “12 steps” program is;
— why dependency arises;
— where the boundaries of dependency are;
— how co-dependent love differs from healthy attachment;
— what a developing dialogue is and what tools it includes;
— what mistakes are often made when talking to someone with a dependency, and how to avoid them.