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by: Alice Miller
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8582239
EAN: 9780465045846
ISBN: 0465045847
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: August 21, 2001
Publisher: Basic Books
Sales Rank: 301382
Studio: Basic Books
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More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving The Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers everywhere, and her book soon achieved cult status and became a backlist bestseller.In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller's vivid true stories reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial. This denial, necessary for the child's survival, leads to emotional blindness and finally to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations, warns Miller-a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of 'child disciplinarians' like James Dobson and other religion-driven psychologists. The Truth Will Set You Free will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject.
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Rating:  - best responce from amazon ever
proffessional vender!! book was NEW just as he advertised. received the book quickly. I am enjoying reading this book right now on a cold winter's night.
Rating: - Thou Shalt Be Aware
The terrorist, the mass murderer, the anorexic . . .
At the very beginning of human history, well before the Ten Commandments, we were presented with a supreme and destructive commandment. "Thou shalt not be mindful of the things done to you or the things you have done to others." For thousands of years, this "commandment of ignorance" has undermined our education and our childrearing, and has prevented us from telling good from evil. And although evil is learned and is not innate, it ... Read More
Rating:  - a re-tread of her wonderful and classic point of view
It's hard not to give anything by Alice Miller five stars, because I think she's the greatest psychology writer out there today - at least the one who's influenced my personal growth and my work as a psychotherapist the most - BUT... But, this book just isn't her greatest, and I found the same problem with it that I found with her last few books...that they're really just a re-tread of her old themes, and her ideas just aren't expanding that much further than those presented in her early classics ... Read More
Rating: - Overcoming Childhood Abuse
Before reading further, please be aware that this book deals with extreme examples of beatings and sexual abuse of children. The details are not made any more graphic than is necessary to the argument, but the examples will be disturbing to most readers.
Dr. Miller argues that childhood abuse is more prevalent and damaging than appreciated by most. Many victims cannot easily remember that they were abused. Others experienced personality twists that caused them to identify positively with ... Read More
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