Review:Great, great, great. I work with clients who deal with a lot of shame (whether or not they are initially aware of it) and I recommend this book. I love John Bradshaw, and would probably recommend anything written by him (although I have not fully read all of his books, yet). He's pretty solid. Read more

Review:This book could actually be helpful to people, as it contains a lot of good basic psychological self-help information. But it is really a book written for adult children of alcoholics. Whitfield stretches and strains to try to cover all those from difficult or dysfunctional families, and the result is messy. It also contains a lot of sloppy thinking, fundamentally the notion equating the Inner Child with the Real Self, Divine Child, and so on. It gets torturous when he tries to explain qualitie... Read more