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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 150.198 EAN: 9780385267625 ISBN: 0385267622 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: September 01, 1991 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: September 01, 1991 Studio: Anchor Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: If, as a child, you were abused or neglected by someone you loved and trusted, it's likely you blamed yourself. To survive as an abused child, you struggled to forget the pain. But this tactic became a life-destroying force. It deadened your ability to feel, to be aware, to remember and, later, reemerged as unresolved rage, perhaps misdirected at your own children. You can halt that cycle and reclaim the truth about the abuse with this book. Miller's conviction--that it's only through feeling loved and cherished that cruelty can be recognized--provides a starting point for healing. Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good Info for Self-DiscoveryI came across this book at a local bookstore last weekend just out of curiosity, and the thing that caught my attention was the title itself: "Banished Knowledge." I began to wonder: what kind of knowledge that this author was addressing. Then, I looked through it and it was about a knowledge lost to oneself due to trauma in childhood. And, this book was also about facing one's abused childhood in order to be freed from repressed emotions. This book is a second book by Alice Miller that I have read, ... Read More Rating: - Worth reading......I have read a few of Alice Miller's books and think to truly appreciate her work, that you shouldn't judge by only reading one. I am a fan from the first book of hers I read, but learned to really respect her work the more I read. This is a good read just like her others. Rating:  - HowgwashWhile I applaud her commitment to exposing Child Abuse and am intrigued by her style of writing, I am horrified that she is so extremist in her views. Alice is obviously well-read and well-educated but some of her assumptions completely miss the mark. She basically made me feel that I am a child abuser. I have never raised a hand to my child. But that does not seem good enough to her. And do not even get me started on her section on Autism! She opens up a can of worms there and never closes it, ... Read More Rating:  - She Condemns Child Abusers But Not The Abuser Within HerselfNo writer has had more of an impact on me than Alice Miller, but the more I grow, the more I realize her limits. This book's strength is that Alice Miller understands and beautifully labels the devastating causes and effects of extreme child abuse. Its weakness is that she doesn't realize that these extreme cases are just the tip of the iceberg. And it's a big iceberg. Although part of Alice Miller is most certainly enlightened, which explains why so much of her writing rings ... Read More Rating:  - excellentAlice Miller, I am a fan. Infor helped me let go of some stuff 
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