John Elliot Bradshaw was an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author who hosted a number of PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency, and spirituality. Bradshaw was active in the self-help movement, and was credited with popularizing such ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family. Those works can be found at www.johnbradshaw.com, a. k. a., John Bradshaw Media Group. In promotional materials, interviews, and reviews of his work, he was often referred to as a theologian.
