John Elliot Bradshaw (June 29, 1933 - May 8, 2016) is an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker and author who hosts a number of PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency, and spirituality. Bradshaw is active in the self-help movement, and is credited with popularizing ideas such as "wounded inner child" and dysfunctional families. The works can be found at www.johnbradshaw.com, a. k. a., John Bradshaw Media Group. In his promotional materials, interviews, and reviews of his work, he is often referred to as a theologian.
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Biography
Bradshaw was born in Houston, Texas, into a troubled family and abandoned by an alcoholic father who was also abandoned by his own father. Bradshaw won a scholarship to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. He got a B.A. degree in Sacred Theology and M.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto in Canada. Six years after his graduation in 1963, Bradshaw returned to college at Rice University in Houston, Texas, performing three years of undergraduate work in psychology and religion. Bradshaw said alcoholism and other problems led to his decision to end his plan to become a priest.
Bradshaw is the author of six books, some of whom hold the top slot as the bestselling New York Times; his book Homecoming reached No. 1. During the 1980s and 1990s he hosted a number of PBS television broadcasts based on his books. He served on the board of directors of the Palmer Drug Abuse Program and as national director of the John Bradshaw Center at Ingleside Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
Bradshaw lives in a subdivision of Shadyside Houston, Texas, with his wife, Karen, an artist, and his daughter, Ariel Bradshaw. John Bradshaw also has a son, John Bradshaw, Jr.
On May 8, 2016, Bradshaw died of heart failure at age 82 and left his wife and partner for 20 years, Karen Ann Bradshaw, and 2 Children, John Bradshaw, Jr. and Ariel Harper Bradshaw.
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Careers
Throughout the 1970s, John Bradshaw served as a management consultant at Borco Manufacturing Company and as a leadership coach at Denka Chemical Company. He is also director of human resources and serves on the board of directors of Texas General Oil Company. Bradshaw is a developer and presenter of workshops for forty Fortune 500 companies and thousands of nonprofit and nonprofit agencies that evolved.
He presented lectures and workshops for educational, professional and social organizations beginning in 1964. He served as: a member, board of directors and as president of the Palmer Drug Abuse Program (1981-88); national director of Life-Plus Co-Dependency Treatment Center (1987-1990); founder and national director of John Bradshaw Center at Ingleside Hospital in Los Angeles (1991-1997); and members, the national board of directors of The International Montessori Society (1990-2016). She is a lifelong board member of the Board of Alcohol and Medicines in Houston.
Beginning in 1999, Bradshaw was also a senior at The Meadows Institute. The Meadows is a multi-distress inpatient facility in Arizona that specializes in the treatment of various addictions. The intensive care of this facility focuses on drug and alcohol addiction, sexual addiction, depression, eating disorders, psychological conditions, affective disorder and compulsive behavior. It takes a holistic approach to addiction recovery and includes a variety of therapeutic approaches, including the Twelve-step program from Alcoholics Anonymous.
In 1991, Bradshaw won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for his series Bradshaw On: Homecoming.
Bradshaw muncul di Oprah , Geraldo , Sally , Dr. Ruth , Tom Snyder , Donahue , Politically Incorrect , CNN- Talk Back Live , dan Sirius Radio.
Bradshaw is a six-authored book, three of which are the New York Times Best Sellers, and he sells over 10 million copies and is published in 42 languages. His last book, Post-Romantic Stress Disorder , was published by Health Communications in 2014.
Television
- Highlights : weekly program (host), 1969-1972
- The Bradshaw Difference : a syndicated talk show produced by MGM, 1996
- Speaking Truth in Love : Independent Production 2009
PBS television network
- Eight Stages of Man : eight-part series, 1982
- Bradshaw On the Family : ten-part series, 1985
- Where's your father? : an hour program, 1986
- Healing Your Shy Taste : an hour's program, 1987
- Adults From Dysfunctional Families : two hour program, 1988
- Surviving Divorce : a ninety-minute program, 1989
- Bradshaw On Homecoming : ten-part series, 1990
- Creating Love : ten-part series, 1992-1993
- Eating Disorders : three-part series, 1994-1995
- Bradshaw On: Family Secrets : six-part series, 1995
Also see
Swadaya
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External links
- Official website
- Curriculum vitae
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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