The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

By Alice Miller

An exam of early life trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating results by way of one of many world's top psychoanalysts.

by no means prior to has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller tested so persuasively the long-range effects of early life abuse at the physique. utilizing the studies of her sufferers in addition to the biographical tales of literary giants corresponding to Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller exhibits how a kid's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will present itself as grownup illness―be it melanoma, stroke, or different debilitating ailments. by no means one to shrink back from controversy, Miller urges society as a complete to jettison its trust within the Fourth Commandment and never to increase forgiveness to folks whose tyrannical childrearing equipment have led to unsatisfied, and sometimes ruined, grownup lives. during this empowering paintings, writes Rutgers professor Philip Greven, "readers will find out how to confront the overt and covert traumas in their personal childhoods with the enlightened assistance of Alice Miller."

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Desk of Contents compliment additionally by means of Alice Miller identify web page Copyright Epigraph Contents Preface creation: Morality and the physique I announcing AND CONCEALING 1 Awe of the fogeys and Its Tragic results Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche 2 The struggle for Liberty within the Dramas and the Unheeded Outcry of the physique Friedrich von Schiller three The Betrayal of reminiscence Virginia Woolf four Self-Hatred and Unfulfilled Love Arthur Rimbaud five The Imprisoned baby and the need of Denying soreness Yukio Mishima 6 Suffocated by means of Mother’s Love Marcel Proust 7 A prior grasp at Splitting Off emotions James Joyce Postscript to half I II conventional MORALITY IN remedy AND the data OF THE physique advent to half II eight The Familiarity of Cruelty to childrens nine The Carousel of emotions 10 The physique as mum or dad of the reality eleven am i able to Say It?

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