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Legends · 1933–2016

John Bradshaw

Emotional WellbeingRelationships

Popularized inner-child and family-systems work, naming shame as the wound underneath much adult behavior.

John Bradshaw is included in the Legends collection for work associated with Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships. This profile offers a starting point for readers who want to place that work within the wider personal-development tradition.

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Legends

movement in the collection

1933–2016

life and work

2

focus areas

Ideas associated with the work

  • Explore the work through emotional wellbeing
  • Explore the work through relationships
“The child in you is the part of you that feels most deeply and needs most urgently to be heard.”

— John Bradshaw, Homecoming

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“The child in you is the part of you that feels most deeply and needs most urgently to be heard.”

— John Bradshaw, Homecoming

Popularized inner-child and family-systems work, naming shame as the wound underneath much adult behavior.

  • Emotional Wellbeing
  • Relationships

Signature works

Start with the books.

Explore a short reading list, with purchasing links that support ManyMasters.

01

Bradshaw On: The Family

1988 · Family systems and the roles children learn.

02

Healing the Shame That Binds You

1988 · His central work on toxic shame.

03

Homecoming

1990 · Reclaiming and championing the inner child.

04

Creating Love

1992 · On what love requires after the wounds are named.

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