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Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
Alice Miller
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Description for Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Worrall, Simon. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.
Alice Miller has achieved recognition for her revolutionary work on the causes and effects of child abuse - here she works towards demolishing the wall of silence which surrounds the sufferings of early childhood as they affect everyday life, politics, the media, psychiatry and psychotherapy. An infant's trust and dependency on its parents, its longing to be loved and be able to love in return, are boundless. To exploit this dependency, to confuse a child's longings and abuse its trust by pretending that this is somehow good for it, Alice Miller condemns as a criminal act, committed time ... Read more
Alice Miller has achieved recognition for her revolutionary work on the causes and effects of child abuse - here she works towards demolishing the wall of silence which surrounds the sufferings of early childhood as they affect everyday life, politics, the media, psychiatry and psychotherapy. An infant's trust and dependency on its parents, its longing to be loved and be able to love in return, are boundless. To exploit this dependency, to confuse a child's longings and abuse its trust by pretending that this is somehow good for it, Alice Miller condemns as a criminal act, committed time ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
136g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860493478
SKU
V9781860493478
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About Alice Miller
Alice Miller lives in France. For 20 or so years she taught and practised psychoanalysis. Now, she questions the validity of its theories. In 1988 she resigned from the International Psychoanalytical Association and, in 1995, revised her bestselling THE DRAMA OF BEING A CHILD.
Reviews for Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
Every parent should read her
EDNA O'BRIEN
Alice Miller changed the way I think about my own life
SARA PARETSKY
EDNA O'BRIEN
Alice Miller changed the way I think about my own life
SARA PARETSKY