1997
The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
110 min
CLEAR ALL
“Even where I live in St. Paul, known nationally for being the ‘crossroads of recovery,’” William said, “the stigma prevents people from thinking about alcoholics and other drug addicts as ‘good people with a bad illness.’”
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"I knew how progressive the disease was. I knew each time I used, I fell faster and faster. I knew when I went out that day I was a dead man. I didn't go out to do drugs. I went out to die."
Dr. Hallowell shares how mental illness affected his family and why stigma is the biggest obstacle to people getting the help they need.
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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.”
Mr. Bradshaw found fame with books and television shows proposing that emotional and psychological damage experienced in childhood was the root of adult ills.
HoustonPBS' Ernie Manouse sits down with renowned author and counselor John Bradshaw (1933 - 2016), to discuss his life and work - from the dysfunctional family, to the wounded inner-child.
This lecture is based on John Bradshaw's book with the same title..but in this lecture he only covers the first part of the book (the problem)..the second part of the book deals with (the solution) and the healing process..