''Women Who Love Too Much'' is a
self-help book
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from ''Self-Help'', an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-im ...
by licensed marriage and family therapist
Robin Norwood Robin Norwood (born July 27, 1945) is the author of the international best-selling book, '' Women Who Love Too Much'' as well as ''Letters from Women Who Love Too Much, Daily Meditations for Women Who Love Too Much'' (illustrated by Richard Torregr ...
published in 1985.
The book, which was a number one seller on the
''New York Times'' Best Seller list's "advice and miscellaneous" category in 1987, is credited with "spawn
nga cottage industry in the therapy community." Its premise, that women who get "mired in obsessive relationships" are to help themselves, was criticized by some feminist scholars.
See also
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Codependence
In sociology, codependency is a theory that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive behavior such as addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achieve ...
References
1985 non-fiction books
Self-help books
Popular psychology
Gender studies books
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