John Bradshaw, an author, television personality and public speaker who built a self-help empire exhorting his followers to conquer their emotional ills by “reclaiming” their “inner child ...

The "President Bradshaw" referred to was John Bradshaw, a prominent English jurist who was appointed lord president of the high court of justice to oversee the trial and beheading of King Charles ...

John Bradshaw did not coin the terms "inner child" or "dysfunctional family," but the motivational speaker and self-help icon of the 1970s and '80s popularized them through his best-selling books ...