CO-DEPENDENCE - HEALING THE HUMAN CONDITION Of all the books on the often misunderstood concept of co-dependence, this is probably the clearest, most complete and informative.  Charles Whitfield is a frontline clinician who has been assisting co-dependents in their healing for over twenty years.  He has researched the literature on co-dependence, which he summarizes in this widely read book. He sees co-dependence as a way to more accurately describe the painful and confusing part of the human condition.  In careful detail he describes just what co-dependence is and what it is not, how it comes about, and how to heal its painful aftereffects.