The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
by Alice Miller
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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, show more 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." show lessTags
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Until perhaps 200 years ago, before the scientific era, the ancients understood that the truth and the facts were separate things. Alice Miller reminds us that our body memory still functions this way. A story doesn't need to be factual to be true, and this applies to Miller's analysis of the psychological profiles of historical figures. A tour de force. Bravo!
"Al parecer, cuantos más crímenes cometa un tirano, más tolerancia recibirá, eso siempre que el acceso de sus admiradores al sufrimiento de sus propias infancias permanezca herméticamente cerrado".
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- 2004
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 616.8582239 — Applied Science & Technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Nervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCD Miscellaneous Personality, sexual, gender-identity, impulse-control, factitious, developmental, learning disorders; violent behavior; mental retardation Antisocial personality disorders, family violence and abuse Family violence and abuse
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- RC569.5 .C55 .M55713 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Psychiatry Psychopathology Personality disorders. Behavior problems
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