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John Elliot Bradshaw (June 29, 1933 – May 8, 2016) was an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author who hosted a number of PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency, and spirituality.
John Bradshaw states that toxic shame is induced, inside children, by all forms of child abuse. Incest and other forms of child sexual abuse can cause particularly severe toxic shame. Toxic shame often induces what is known as complex trauma in children who cannot cope with toxic shaming as it occurs and who dissociate the shame until it is ...
Enmeshment was also used by John Bradshaw to describe a state of cross-generational bonding within a family, whereby a child (normally of the opposite sex) becomes a surrogate spouse for their mother or father. [6] The term is sometimes applied to engulfing codependent relationships, [7] where an unhealthy symbiosis is in existence. [8]
John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame That Binds You; John Bradshaw, Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child; John Bradshaw, Bradshaw On: The Family; Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, The Narcissistic Family. Diagnosis and Treatment
Of the top 50 retailers, 17 received a grade of F, placing them in the report’s “Toxic Hall of Shame.” Lowest-ranked retailers include restaurant giants such as McDonald’s, Chipotle ...
John Bradshaw (judge) (1602–1659), English judge; John Bradshaw (writer) (born 1658/9), English criminal and supposed political writer; John Bradshaw (author) (1933–2016), American educator and self-help writer; John W. S. Bradshaw, anthrozoologist, author of Cat Sense and Dog Sense; John Bradshaw (Adventist) presenter of It Is Written
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In his television shows, and in books such as Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child (1990), John Bradshaw, a U.S. educator, pop psychology and self-help movement leader, used "inner child" to point to unresolved childhood experiences and the lingering dysfunctional effects of childhood dysfunction: the sum of mental-emotional ...