Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth
In this classic work on child abuse, world-renowned psychotherapist Alice Miller highlights the ways in which violence endured in early childhood leads to brutal cruelty in society. In her analyses of such tyrants as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Nicolae Ceausescu, Miller reveals the fascinating links between the horrors of their childhoods and the horrors they inflicted on the world. In this new edition, Miller pleads for universal awareness of the ways in which traumatic childhoods...
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Announcing a new edition of Breaking Down the Wall of Silence from the world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller.
Foreword viiPart 1 Openings and Glimpses1 Eve's Initiative 32 Out of the Prison of Confusion 93 The Psychiatrists' Campaign Against the Act of Remembering 174 Blindman's Buff and the Flight from Facts in Psychoanalysis 31Part 2 Facts5 Child Sacrifice as "Tradition" 476 The Monstrous Consequences of Denial 53Adolf Hitler's Path to Genocide 53Nicolae Ceausescu's Vision of Redemption 697 The Mistreated Child in the Lamentations of Jeremiah 87Part 3 Giving Up Hypocrisy8 The Liberating Experience of Painful Truth 1019 Protecting Life After Birth 113Afterword to the Paperback Edition 121Appendix A Wars and Dictators 129Appendix B A Law Against the Business of Tyranny 137Appendix C A Letter to Alice Miller 143Appendix D Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids 145Bibliography 149Index 151About the Author 165
