"Even better than the real thing": Narratives of the self in codependency

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-28

  Irvine, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Codependency; Narrative; Selfhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038758302     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005499315592     Document Type: Article

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