Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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 answer - and 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 writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive...
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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 answer—and has helped them to apply it Washington Post Book World A book that patients prescribe...the therapists are reading it because their patients are recommending it.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the Revised Edition (1994)11The Drama of the Gifted Child and How We Became Psychotherapists27The Poor Rich Child30The Lost World of Feelings34In Search of the True Self38The Therapist's History44The Golden Brain502Depression and Grandiosity: Two Related Forms of Denial52The Vicissitudes of the Child's Needs52The Illusion of Love57Depressive Phases During Therapy74The Inner Prison77A Social Aspect of Depression82The Legend of Narcissus863The Vicious Circle of Contempt87Humiliation for the Child, Disrespect for the Weak, and Where It Goes from There87Working with Contempt in Therapy98"Depravity" as "Evil" in Hermann Hesse's Childhood World110The Mother as Society's Agent During the First Years of Life116The Loneliness of the Contemptuous119Achieving Freedom from Contempt and Respecting Life123Afterword129Works Cited137Appendix141Index145
\ New York MagazineRare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence...her examples are so vivid and so ordinary that they touch the hurt child in us all.\ \ \ \ \ Washington Post Book WorldA book that patients prescribe...the therapists are reading it because their patients are recommending it.\ \ \ Publishers WeeklyThe revised edition of Miller's study of the psychology of successful people features a new introduction by the author; also available in hardcover, $20 *-01694-4 (Aug.)\ \
