Illuminates the issues and consequences of childhood abuse. This book discusses much-debated theories such as the impact of religious belief on the cultural traditions of child abuse.

Miller believes that violence and crime in society have their roots in conventional child rearing and in education which can create a childhood prison. Miller describes how her discoveries can create freedom from this prison. This edition has been revised since her renunciation of psychoanalysis.

Deals with how adults can finally overcome the traumas of their childhood. This book presents theories that enhance communication and enable adults to express emotions that have been trapped for years. It explains why subconscious pain, unaddressed for decades, manifests itself later as depression, primal inadequacy and chronic loneliness.

Investigates the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of the author's patients along with biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, this work shows how a child's humiliation, impotence and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness.

To eliminate her own repression, Alice Miller sought a therapy that would allow the injured child within the adult to find its own language. She found a method that enables her to resolve the consequences of her own childhood traumas. Now she shares her knowledge with us.

A study of child abuse. Through her paintings, Alice Miller confronts the truth and pain of her own childhood. She meditates on her spontaneously executed watercolours, and offers an analysis of the roots of creativity in the authentic self's struggle for survival.

In this volume, the author draws on research on brain development to show how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial in children, leading to emotional blindness and mental barriers that cut off awareness and new ways of of acting. She offers ways to heal these psychic wounds.

Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller pleads for awareness of society's role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim.

The text connects adult creativity with childhood traumas and attempts to undermine our acceptance of repressive parental figures by reliving our childhood history. This work aims to answer such questions as why Hitler became a mass murderer and why Buster Keaton never smiled.

A challenge to the child-rearing practices of punishment and coercion, by the acclaimed author of THE DRAMA OF BEING A CHILD. 'This book can change lives' - Maurice Sondak.

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answerand has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents expectations and win their love. Alice Miller ...

Announcing the thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition of The Drama of the Gifted Child from the world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller

In this book, Miller investigates the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body aiming to help her readers deal with their repressed emotions and break the cycle of violence.

Miller embarks on a revolutionary psychoanalytic path in order to explain why child abuse is so widespread and why it is ignored and overlooked. The author combines case histories with dreams, fairy tales and the works of Kafka, Woolf, Flaubert and Beckett in an argument for a more compassionate approach.

Incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of the world. The author pleads for an awareness of society's role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim.

Contains several poignant scenarios and two essays of reflection that focus on a range of issues - from birth, motherhood and partnership to hatred, cults and the Holocaust. This tenth anniversary edition offers fresh reflections on the transformative power of childhood.