In Praise of John Bradshaw's Book Healing the Shame That Binds You (REVIEW ESSAY)
The American recovering alcoholic and self-help guru John Bradshaw (1933-2016) published the profoundly insightful book Healing the Shame That Binds You (1987; expanded and updated second edition, 2005). Americans liberals and progressives today may still benefit from John Bradshaw's profound insights in that book, as I hope to show in the present essay through my extensive discussion of mom-son fantasy skits in porn videos.