#The drama of the gifted child free#

(London), for permission to reprint excerpts from Christiane F.: Autobiography of a Girl of the Streets and Heroin Addict, adapted from the translation by Susanne Flatauer, copyright © 1980 by Arlington Books to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., for permission to reprint excerpts from Hitler by Joachim C. (New York) and Arlington Books (Publishers), Ltd. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Desmond Elliott Publisher, Ltd. Originally published in 1980 by Suhrkamp Verlag,įrankfurt am Main, as Am Anfang war Erziehungįirst published in the United States in 1983 Translation copyright © 1983, 1984, 1990, 2002 by Alice Millerĭistributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. The author's Web site can be found at Cover painting by Alice Miller Her other books include Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child and Pictures of a Childhood. Her brilliant books penetrate into areas of grief no one else travels to, and there is healing in this journey.'Īlice Miller has devoted herself to writing since 1979, after having practiced psychoanalysis for more than twenty years. 'Alice Miller's thought is immensely important. I cannot sufficiently stress the importance and urgency of reading For Your Own Good.' For Your Own Good should be read by all who are troubled by what has happened to our world and to our children. 'This is a book of extraordinary importance, for it makes as clear as a beacon-light the root causes of violence as a consequence of our misguided child-rearing practices. I challenge any thinking and feeling person to read this book.and not in turn be changed or altered.' So convincingly does she show how harmful and cruel are the principles ruling our traditional upbringing that she even unexpectedly found confirmation from a church-oriented reviewer, who wrote in Church World: ' For Your Own Good is a shattering, frightening, and eventually one of the most illuminating and life-view-changing works that I have ever read. In the clear, strong, poetic language that distinguished her first book, the highly acclaimed Prisoners of Childhood: The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller has written a groundbreaking study of the origins of violence. One may quibble with some of Alice Miller's conclusions, but there is no arguing with her essential and extremely moving thesis.' She makes chillingly clear to the many what has been recognized only by the few: the extraordinary pain and psychological suffering inflicted on children under the guise of conventional child-rearing and pedagogy. 'Alice Miller's For Your Own Good expands on and drives home with great ferocity the point of her earlier and brilliant Prisoners of Childhood. THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE: OVERCOMING EMOTIONAL BLINDNESS AND FINDING YOUR TRUE ADULT SELF THE UNTOUCHED KEY: TRACING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN CREATIVITY ANDīANISHED KNOWLEDGE: FACING CHILDHOOD INJURIESīREAKING DOWN THE WALL OF SILENCE: THE LIBERATING EXPERIENCE OF FACING PAINFUL TRUTH PICTURES OF A CHILDHOOD: SIXTY-SIX WATERCOLORS AND AN ESSAY THOU SHALT NOT BE AWARE: SOCIETY'S BETRAYAL OF THE CHILD THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD: THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUE SELF) 'An intelligent, crusading effort with wide appeal.' - Library Journal 'Compellingly illustrate how measures applied 'for the child's own good' often crush the developing self.' - Publishers Weekly Miller's well-informed book carried profound implications for the way the world is and might be governed.' - Booklist Louise Armstrong, The Women's Review of Books 'Not only does she bring an original psychoanalytic perspective to child abuse her voice is uniquely informed by impassioned social concern.' ' - Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review 'Miller proceeds anecdotally and intuitively, and what makes her decidedly idiosyncratic and individualistic argument convincing is that it sounds like the truth. ' is compassionate, and her insights and evaluations are disquieting.' - Valerie Brooks, Psychology Today Miller's book could not be more timely.' - Kathleen McCaffrey, The Baltimore Sun The problem of children's rights is pressing, as is the problem of violence in American society. her analysis is incisive and compassionate, and.

#The drama of the gifted child free#

Miller has written this book for the lay reader, it is straightforward and free of jargon.

Miller's view of how pedagogy can distort power relations on a personal, rather than a political or social, level is persuasive and pertinent.' - Ann Hulbert, The New Republic