Pictures of a childhood : sixty-six watercolours and an essay / Alice Miller ; translated by Hildegarde Hannum.
By: Miller, Alice.
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BookPublisher: London : Virago, 1995, c1986Edition: New ed.Description: 178p. : col. ill. ; 18cm.ISBN: 1860491502; 9781860491504.Uniform titles: Bilder einer Kindheit. English Subject(s): Miller, Alice, 1923- | Watercolorists -- Germany (West) -- Biography | Watercolorists -- Germany -- Biography | Psychoanalysis and art
| Children in art | Childhood in art | Repression (Psychology) in children | Art and Design | Child abuse | Psychology | Children Play PsychologyDDC classification: 155.4182 MIL | 155.4
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In PICTURES OF CHILDHOOD, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative anxiety which 'somehow permits us to come to grips with the demons of our past and give form to the chaos within and thereby master our anxiety.'
Having realised in the early seventies a lifelong desire to paint, Dr Miller found an unfamiliar world emerging from her paintings: not the 'nice' world of her childhood, to which she had always testified, but one of fear, despair and loneliness. Meditating on her spontaneously executed watercolours- sixty-six of which are reproduced here in full colour- and their implications, Dr Miller offers a profound analysis of the roots of creativity in the authentic self's struggle for survival.
Repr. with new preface. - Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
ITT Module CREA71001
Translation of: Bilder einer Kindheit.
Translated from the German.
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)