- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; 2nd Edition edition (24 Oct 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 185381461X
- ISBN-13: 978-1853814617
- Product Dimensions: 15.8 x 9.5 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 312,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Feminist Review"
"This is a beautiful, fierce, necessary book written by an emotionally intelligent lioness who continues her efforts to break through the wall--one brick, one book-- at a time. I highly recommend it."
"This is a beautiful, fierce, necessary book written by an emotionally intelligent lioness who continues her efforts to break through the wall--one brick, one book-- at a time. I highly recommend it."
"Chicago Tribune"
"Makes many provocative and persuasive points about the long-term effects of child abuse, the interdependence between society and child-rearing and, finally, the individual's need to confront memories, however painful."
"San Francisco Chronicle"
"The applicability of Miller's concepts--especially during these divisive times--is what makes her message so cogent for American audiences."
"Moving Worlds"
"A penetrating look at how to break the cycle of child abuse in today's world."
"New Age Journal"
"Miller charts valuable territory."
"South Bend Tribune"
"What Miller has to say is enlightening...This is not a book that can be read through once and put aside. The reader can return again and again as new truth
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Alice Miller has achieved recognition for her revolutionary work on the causes and effects of child abuse - here she works towards demolishing the wall of silence which surrounds the sufferings of early childhood as they affect everyday life, politics, the media, psychiatry and psychotherapy. An infant's trust and dependency on its parents, its longing to be loved and be able to love in return, are boundless. To exploit this dependency, to confuse a child's longings and abuse its trust by pretending that this is somehow "good for" it, Alice Miller condemns as a criminal act, committed time and again out of ignorance and the refusal to change. The essential first stage in this healing process is feeling the truth of our experience. Only this, Alice Miller writes, can enable us "to recognise childhood events and resolve their consequences so that we can lead a conscious, responsible life. If we know and feel what happened to us then, we will never wish to harm ourselves or others now".
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LASER BEAM FOCUS ON THE TRUTH
28 Feb 2012
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I really liked this book when I first read it in 1991. It is much more forceful than "Banished Knowledge." This work is absolutely exhilarating and invigorating to read. Never has truth seemed so familiar and plain, and with such potential for pervasive potency in everyone's lives. Alice Miller (although now deceased) is ripe and right here: repression of the awareness that our parents hurt us, neglected us, did not respect or honor us is the cause for almost all psychic illness, neuroticism, self-destruction, and even world-destructiveness.
That being said, I still don't get what Alice Miller saw in Stettbacher as being so specially wonderful, about his techniques in particular. In America, what the European Stettbacher recommends in his writings is what the average and eclectic psychotherapist practices each and every day with his or her patients.
Nonetheless, I love that Alice Miller nails Freud, Jung and Kohut in this work for being unable themselves to penetrate into their own abuses in childhood. These men comprise one less disguised "helper" to have to fight with, be wary of, or even listen to.
This book is well-written, passionate, and is possessed of a laser-beam focus on abuse and the truth.
That being said, I still don't get what Alice Miller saw in Stettbacher as being so specially wonderful, about his techniques in particular. In America, what the European Stettbacher recommends in his writings is what the average and eclectic psychotherapist practices each and every day with his or her patients.
Nonetheless, I love that Alice Miller nails Freud, Jung and Kohut in this work for being unable themselves to penetrate into their own abuses in childhood. These men comprise one less disguised "helper" to have to fight with, be wary of, or even listen to.
This book is well-written, passionate, and is possessed of a laser-beam focus on abuse and the truth.
14 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Living without deception and shame
13 Mar 2009
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It is a painful but fulfilling experience to stop telling lies to oneself - to face life without deception and illusion, to constantly question yourself and those close to you, quite simply - to live consciously and meaningfully and to accept your past as it truly was. Love and relationships can't help but win over money, sex and power!
2 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Danger
28 May 2010
Format:Paperback
Like the all Alice Miller's works the present one thrives unprepared reader to use his (her ) imagiantion and enter a state of »dreaming« ( meditation or learning from personal experience ). The mentioned state is reserved for rare because it can corrupt untrustworthy mental stability of the suspicious people and push them into unpredictable and uncontrolable moods of behaviour . The work is reserved just to the innocent and persistent people whose flawlessness protect them from dangerous attack of the unknown. Wish a good luck to all the braves traveling the hard path of the personal development, oceangleam
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