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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum), Israel (Kinneret)For Your Own Good / Am Anfang war Erziehung
Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
»For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.
With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive...
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»For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.
With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions – on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler – offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects.
This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world – indeed, of the ever-more-violent world – that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard – namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.« (book description from the English edition by FSG)
1983, 322 pages
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Alice Miller
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Alice Miller, born in 1923, was a psychotherapist who conducted research into the influence of childhood trauma on the adult. In 1980, she decided to dedicate herself completely to writing in order to commit to her broad experience of the deeper meanings of childhood and share her knowledge of their decisive persistence in entire life with a larger public. Alice Miller died on April 14, 2010 at the age of 87.
Alice Miller
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Alice Miller, born in 1923, was a psychotherapist who conducted research into the influence of childhood trauma on the adult. In 1980, she decided...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2007
Paths of Life
How do our first experiences of pain and love affect our future adult lives and our relationships with others? This is the key question which runs through the »life stories« collected...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2007
Free from Lies
Since the landmark publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child, no one has been more influential than Alice Miller in empowering adults whose lives were maimed emotionally and physically...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2005
The Body Never Lies
In this empowering work, writes Rutgers professor Philip Greven, readers will learn how to confront the overt and covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened guidance of Alice...
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Year of Publication: 2003
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2003
Thruth Will Set You Free
When God created the Garden of Eden, he came up with a cruel scenario: He gave Adam and Eve the tree of knowledge, but forbade them to eat of its fruits. The Father of all fathers punished the...
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Year of Publication: 2003
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2003
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
Psychohistorical analyses of such brutal tyrants as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Nicolae Ceausescu show the obvious links between the horrors of their childhoods and the horror they inflicted on...
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Year of Publication: 1997
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1997
Drama of the Gifted Child
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer – and has helped them to apply...
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Year of Publication: 1990
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1990
Banished Knowledge
Cruelty to a »bad child« will make that child into a bad adult and later create a bad world, unless an enlightened witness comes to the rescue. A child respected and taken seriously will...
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Year of Publication: 1988
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1988
The Untouched Key
As in her former books, Alice Miller again focusses on facts. She is as determined as ever to cut through the veil that, for thousands of years now, has been so meticulously woven to shroud the...
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Year of Publication: 1985
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1985
Pictures of a Childhood
In Pictures of a Childhood, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative activity which »somehow permits us to give form to the chaos within and thereby master...
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Year of Publication: 1983
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1983
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
»Originally published in 1984, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware explodes Freud's notions of »infantile sexuality« and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal...
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