List of John Bradshaw Quotes

There Are Plenty Of Quacks In The Field. Fewer Than You'd Expect, Though Still Plenty (in Alternative Medicine).

You Can Find More Traditional Shakespeare Than We Do. But What We Want To Bring To These Works Is Energy, Passion, Freshness.

Science Has So Far Been Unable To Tell Us How Self-aware Dogs Are, Much Less Whether They Have Anything Like Our Conscious Thoughts. This Is Not Surprising, Since Neither Scientists Nor Philosophers Can Agree About What The Consciousness Of Humans Consists Of, Let Alone That Of Animals.

Healthy Shame Is An Emotion That Teaches Us About Our Limits. Like All Emotions, Shame Moves Us To Get Our Basic Needs Met.

Evil Is A Source Of Moral Intelligence In The Sense That We Need To Learn From Our Shadow, From Our Dark Side, In Order To Be Good.

That's The Trouble With The Conventional Doctors. They Always Say, 'how Does It Work?' But Often There Isn't Any Neat Little Answer...something Simply Works...we Don't Really Know How It Works. We Say We Do. We Know One Or Two Things We Can See And Measure.

I Know From My Own Clinical Work That When People Are Beaten And Hurt, They Numb Out So That They Cant Feel Anymore.

Children Aren't Fooled. They Know We Give Time To The Things We Love.

Ego Is To The True Self What A Flashlight Is To A Spotlight.

The Most Paradoxical Aspect Of Neurotic Shame Is That It Is The Core Motivator Of The Superachieved And The Underachieved, The Star And The Scapegoat, The Righteous And The Wretched, The Powerful And The Pathetic.

Most People Who Have Survived Abuse Have Great Strength.

Chronically Dysfunctioning Families Are Also Delusional. Delusion Is Sincere Denial.