By Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed — 2018
You did not survive the traumas of your childhood because you were lucky. You survived — and are thriving — because of your courage and resilience.
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The cynical backlash against the success of the personal growth movement is both frustrating and painful for John Bradshaw, the psychologist and author who coined the term “inner child” and popularised the phrase “dysfunctional family.”
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Mr. Bradshaw found fame with books and television shows proposing that emotional and psychological damage experienced in childhood was the root of adult ills.