Creating love : the next great stage of growth / John Bradshaw.
By: Bradshaw, John [author]
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BookPublisher: London : Piatkus{127}s, 1993Description: xviii, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0749912251.Subject(s): Love | Interpersonal relationsDDC classification: 152.41 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 152.41 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085933 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Extending beyond the usual discussion of romantic love and marriage, the author sets out to show how all our relationships - with parents and children, with friends and colleagues, with ourselves and God - can be either nurturing or soul-destroying. He identifies the traps of counterfeit love and teaches a four-stage process for breaking free of the trance that keeps us locked in the past.
Bibliography: pages 371-374.
Part one: The bafflement of love -- Mystified love -- The sources of mystified love -- The stages of mystification -- Ultimate mystification - the false self -- Part two: The possibility of love -- Soulful love -- Demystification - the realistic imagination -- Reimagining your internalized parents -- Parable The story of Joe -- Part three: Creating love -- Introduction -- The love between parents and children -- The love of god -- Self-love -- The love of friendship -- Spousal love -- Love and work.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
John Elliot Bradshaw was born in Houston, Texas on June 29, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in sacred theology and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He taught at the University of St. Thomas for a year. In 1964, just days before he was to be ordained, he left the Basilian Order.He eventually checked himself into an alcohol-treatment program at a state hospital in Austin. On being released, he returned to Houston and attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings daily for the next three years. He soon began teaching adult Sunday school classes at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church and working with addicts in the church's drug-abuse program. He also appeared on local television as the host of a talk show entitled Spotlight and found himself in demand as a lecturer on family psychology.
In the early 1980s, he did a television series on the psychologist Erik Erikson's eight stages of man, which was broadcast on PBS. He also created a 10-part series entitled Bradshaw On: The Family, which also aired on PBS. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Bradshaw On: The Family, Bradshaw On: Healing the Shame That Binds You, Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, Creating Love, Family Secrets: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, and Post-Romantic Stress Disorder: What to Do When the Honeymoon Is Over. Many of his books were turned into PBS specials. He died of heart failure on May 8, 2016 at the age of 82.
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