Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work.
The Truth Will Set You Free Will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller\'s latest thinking on this important subject..
If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child Will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations--a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of child disciplinarians like James Dobson.
Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial, which leads in turn to Emotional Blindness and to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting.
Miller uses vivid True stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will.
Only by embracing the Truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues.
Alice Miller\'s stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers, and her book soon became a backlist best seller.
In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work.
In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the Emotional lives of their children.
More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world.
She uses vivid True stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will.
Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work
