An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts.\ 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...
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.
\ Elaine Kendall - Los Angeles Times Book Review“Alice Miller’s arguments are lucid, closely reasoned, and utterly convincing.”\ \ \ \ \ Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAlice Miller’s arguments are lucid, closely reasoned, and utterly convincing.— Elaine Kendall\ \