Healing the Shame That Binds You (Recovery Classics) (Recovery Classics)
by John Bradshaw
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Manufacturer: Health Communications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8914
EAN: 9780757303234
ISBN: 0757303234
Label: Health Communications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 316
Publication Date: 2006-01-31
Publisher: Health Communications
Studio: Health Communications
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Summary: Not recommended
Comment: This book is badly written, the writing style being mostly single clause sentences, leading to long series of statements who's meaning was not at all clear.
Although the author does reference other sources of information on shame he writes about it in such a way that seems to refer to himself. It is as though the book is his own work of recovery.
Once the religious preaching claptrap started, the book went straight in the bin.
I found it self-indulgent and creepy, and would not recommend this book.
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Summary: Helpful
Comment: Some reviewers say this book makes people too self centred. I can see why there might be a danger of that. But it can also be a very helpful book. Some shame isn't very useful and can seriously harm people's lives. I am finding the book very inspiring.
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Summary: Victims' charter
Comment: Almost single-handedly, John Bradshaw has created the 'shame' industry. Shame is no longer regarded as a useful emotion which prevents us from repeating shameful acts. Instead it is represented as a false and negative condition which is foisted upon us by others.
There are, of course, individuals who carry around a burden of shame that does not properly belong to them. Such instances are mercifully rare and often involve early abuse.
According to this new doctrine, however, we are all victims, who are 'shamed' by other people. Shame is 'toxic' and is instilled into us by our close family, especially by 'toxic parents'. We are thus entitled to feel very sorry for ourselves and very bitter towards our persecutors.
This view of the matter is, of course, extremely popular. We love to be told that we are hard-done-by and that all our resentments are completely justified.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help people to get well.
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Summary: Muddled and self-indulgent
Comment: John Bradshaw appears to have pulled off an old deception, practised for centuries by quack doctors and mountebanks everywhere. He has invented a malady ('toxic' shame), has then persuaded thousands of gullible people that they are afflicted with it - and is now peddling his patent treatment for this fictitious condition.
There is no objective evidence that 'toxic' shame exists. Yet again, hapless parents are being demonised in the eyes of their self-obsessed offspring. This book encourages people to blame others and to avoid taking responsibility for themselves and for the solutions to their own problems.
It will be welcomed enthusiastically by all who love to flounder around in a swamp of self-pity.
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Summary: If you are serious about recovery and growth ....
Comment: After years in AA and Al-anon and starting ACA now, I am at last in a place to face the issues covered in this wonderful book. It need not take that long hanging around the 12 steps to reap the benefits herein, but that is how long it has taken me to be ready. This publication pulls no punches and tells the truth of the matter with integrity, but also with a consumate sensitivity and kindness. Perhaps best of all, this is one of the few recovery books that outlines positive exercises, for example utliising NLP techniques, to work on - perfect for the compulsive "doer" like me. If you had any kind of dysfunctional childhood (didn't we all?) get a copy of this book rushed to you now!
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