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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 649 EAN: 9780393328639 ISBN: 0393328635 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: August 21, 2006 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts. Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness—be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases. Never one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical childrearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined, adult lives. 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 Miller." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good points spoiled by exaggerated claimsThe book was recommended by an Irish friend who came from what she felt was a repressive background. Unfortunately mine is different and I found this book hard going. It actually made me feel physically unwell to read it. What's the problem? It's hard to tell the facts from the hypothesis in the this book. The author do offer some food for thoughts, but the way she expressed it was so unbalanced that I found it hard to take her seriously. I felt like chucking the baby out with the bath ... Read More Rating:  - impressiveAlice Miller was recomended to me by my terapist. Her ideas have been truly enlightening. Rating: - The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful ParentingExcellent book for individuals who struggle with chronic illness. Alice Miller points to illnesses to childhood emotional disorders. Rating: - The siren for early abuseI have been reading the author's books since the early 80's. Mrs Miller has some very important things to say about what most people consider to be a "normal" childhood experience. Being older I experienced much of the more extreme examples in her new book and I can attest to the debillitating affects she describes. She writes very well and the translators in all of her books are very good. My only criticism is that she is still only writing about the problem and offers no solutions. I felt sad ... Read More Rating: - One of her best!It is time for us to believe in this work. I look forward to a world of people who have healed from childhood abuse. Can you imagine an adult praising and honoring a stranger who attacked them? Handing out shame to quiet vicitms has been our way too much of the time. It is time for us to stop honoring our abusers which Miller says is unnatural and destructive. I really respect her consistent willingness to discuss her own misconceptions on things. She is insightful, well experienced ... Read More 
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