For your own good: Hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence

Politics & Social Sciences

Miller, Alice

Sociology

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

An eminent psychoanalyst examines the incidence, circumstances, and personal and social consequences of the sexual and physical abuse of society's children, reevaluating society's traditional, customary tendency to blame the victims

Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

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For Your Own Good: 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 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.

Self-Help

Relationships

An analysis of the roots of violence examines the impact of traditional child rearing practices on human violence in adulthood

Parenting & Relationships

"Her writing is lovely, and speaks to the nature of the human soul."--Newsday From the world-famous Swiss psychologist whose book The Drama of the Gifted Child has become a classic, here are seven "life stories" exploring the countless ways in which our families and our childhood experiences form us and turn us into the people we are today. How do early experiences of love or suffering affect our adult relationships? What effect is child abuse likely to have on the victim's later life? How does hatred evolve and take root? How do people develop into cult leaders or political tyrants? Through the seven hypothetical scenarios and two essays that make up Paths of Life, Miller examines these questions and many others. Her narratives demonstrate that with knowledge and understanding of our past we have the power to change our future, freeing ourselves from the curse of repeating our parents' mistakes. In this, her eighth book, Alice Miller has given us yet another wise and profound study of the inestimable importance of childhood. "Alice Miller wrote the book on narcissistic parents and the havoc they wreak on children. Twenty years later, she's still on the case with a new book and even more radical ideas."--Mirabella From the Trade Paperback edition.

Paths of Life: Seven Scenarios

Pantheon

A psychoanalyst offers, based on years of research, a method that will enable adults to feel the banished child within, and let that child speak and condemn the past's abuse, in order to liberate their lives

Banished Knowledge, The

Nan A. Talese

In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good, and she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.

Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Examines the connection of childhood traumas with both adult creativity and destructiveness

The Untouched Key

DOUBLEDAY

As in her former books, Alice Miller again focuses 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 truth. When she lifts that veil and brushes it aside, the results are astonishing, amply demonstrated by her analyses of the works of Nietzsche, Picasso, Käthe Kollwitz, Buster Keaton, and others. With the key shunned by so many for so long—childhood—she opens rusty locks and offers her readers a wealth of unexpected perspectives. What did Picasso express in Guernica? Why did Buster Keaton never smile? Why did Nietzsche heap so much opprobrium on women and religion and lose his mind for 11 years? Why did Hitler and Stalin become tyrannical mass murderers? Miller investigates these and other questions thoroughly in this book. She draws from her discoveries that human beings are not “innately” destructive, that they are made that way by ignorance, abuse, and neglect, particularly if no sympathetic witness comes to their aid. She also shows why some mistreated children do not become criminals, but instead bear witness as artists to the truth about their childhoods, even though in purely intuitive and unconscious ways.

The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

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For your own good: Hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence

Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Paths of Life: Seven Scenarios

Banished Knowledge, The

Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

The Untouched Key

The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness