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Dysfunctional Behavior and Family Patterns

By Kathryn Rudlin — 2021

The term dysfunctional is defined as "abnormal or impaired functioning" on the part of an individual person, between people in any sort of relationship, or amongst members of a family.

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Healing the Wounds of the Past

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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The Irish Times
1999
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John Bradshaw, Self-Help Evangelist Who Called to the ‘Inner Child,’ Dies at 82

Mr. Bradshaw found fame with books and television shows proposing that emotional and psychological damage experienced in childhood was the root of adult ills.

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William Grimes
2016
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Launching a Revolution

As California’s first surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris, MPH ’02, is carrying out the visionary agenda she has brought to medical care: finding the roots of disease in childhood adversity and treating the long-term consequences.

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Madeline Drexler
2020
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How to Reduce the Impact of Childhood Trauma

Children who experience adversity tend to have health problems later in life. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains why—and how we can help heal those wounds.

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Jeremy Adam Smith
2018
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There’s a Score to Quantify Childhood Trauma. Some Health Experts Want You to Know Yours.

ACEs stands for adverse childhood experiences. A person’s score is typically a tally of how many of 10 such traumas — specific kinds of abuse, neglect or household challenges — they suffered before the age of 18.

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Richard Morgan
2021
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Good Storytellers Get Better Health Care—But Childhood Trauma Confuses the Narrative

When describing their symptoms, medical history and health changes at a clinic or hospital, every patient is the storyteller of their own health. Good storytellers tend to get better health care, but a history of childhood trauma plays havoc with telling your own story.

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Robert Maunder, Jon Hunter
2021
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Loving-Kindness: Healing Your Inner Child

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give yourself the love and compassion you deserve. And send some of that love to the wounded child inside you. They need it.

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Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward
2020
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Chronic Pain and Childhood Trauma

Recently a journalist colleague of mine put out a call for quotes from those who suffer from severe premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysmorphic disorder (more commonly known as PMS and PMDD, respectively) who also suffered a history of childhood abuse.

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Laura Kiesel
2018
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6 Ways That a Rough Childhood Can Affect Adult Relationships

Dissociation from oneself has long-term implications for who we become.

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Grant Hilary Brenner
2017
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Childhood, Disrupted

Adversity in childhood can create long-lasting scars, damaging our cells and our DNA, and making us sick as adults

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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