Author

Books by Janet G. Woititz

Janet G. Woititz was an American therapist, educator, and author who specialized in addiction and family systems. She earned her doctorate from Rutgers University and founded the Institute for Counseling and Training in New Jersey. Adult Children of Alcoholics, published in 1983, became a foundational text in the recovery movement and was credited with creating the ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) identity as a recognized therapeutic category. Woititz also wrote Marriage on the Rocks and Struggle for Intimacy. She died in 1994.