The body never lies : the lingering effects of cruel parenting / Alice Miller ; translated by Andrew Jenkins.
By: Miller, Alice
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BookPublisher: New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2006Description: 228 p. ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393328639 (pbk.); 0393328635 (pbk.).Subject(s): Adult child abuse victims -- Mental health | Child abuse -- Psychological aspects | Family violence -- Psychological aspects | Child abuse -- Health aspects | Family violence -- Health aspects | Health and Wellbeing | Child abuse | Child, developmental, and lifespan psychologyDDC classification: 616.8582239 MIL Summary: In this book, Miller investigates the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body aiming to help her readers deal with their repressed emotions and break the cycle of violence.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 manifest itself as adult illness--be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases. Never one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical childrearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined, adult lives. 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."
This translation originally published: 2005.
In this book, Miller investigates the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body aiming to help her readers deal with their repressed emotions and break the cycle of violence.
Translated from the German.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. 13)
- Introduction: Morality and the Body (p. 19)
- I Saying and Concealing
- 1 Awe of the Parents and Its Tragic Effects (p. 43)
- 2 The Fight for Liberty in the Dramas and the Unheeded Outcry of the Body (p. 48)
- 3 The Betrayal of Memory (p. 54)
- 4 Self-Hatred and Unfulfilled Love (p. 59)
- 5 The Imprisoned Child and the Necessity of Denying Pain (p. 64)
- 6 Suffocated by Mother's Love (p. 68)
- 7 A Past Master at Splitting Off Feelings (p. 77)
- Postscript to Part I (p. 79)
- II Traditional Morality in Therapy and the Knowledge of the Body
- Introduction to Part II (p. 85)
- 8 The Familiarity of Cruelty to Children (p. 94)
- 9 The Carousel of Feelings (p. 103)
- 10 The Body as Guardian of the Truth (p. 121)
- 11 Can I Say It? (p. 127)
- 12 Kill Rather Than Feel the Truth (p. 134)
- 13 Drugs and the Deception of the Body (p. 138)
- 14 The Right to Awareness (p. 147)
- 15 Deception Kills Love (p. 164)
- III Anorexia: The Longing for Genuine Communication
- Introduction to Part III (p. 173)
- 16 The Fictional Diary of Anita Fink (p. 180)
- Postscript (p. 203)
- Afterword (p. 209)
- Notes (p. 223)
- Bibliography (p. 227)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Alice Miller was born in Lwow, Poland on January 12, 1923. She studied philosophy and literature at the University of Warsaw, which operated underground during the war. After the war, she continued her studies at the University of Basel and received a doctorate in 1953. After undergoing Freudian psychiatric training, she went into practice as a psychoanalyst. She believed that parental power and punishment lay at the root of nearly all human problems.By the time she wrote her first book, she had stopped practicing psychiatry. Her works include The Drama of the Gifted Child; The Truth Shall Set You Free; Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries; For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence; Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child; The Untouched Key; The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting; Breaking Down the Wall of Silence; and Free From Lies: Discovering Your True Needs. She died on April 14, 2010 at the age of 87.
(Bowker Author Biography)