For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
of Alice Miller, Hunter Hannum (Translator), Hildegarde Hannum (Translator)
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For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusionsÂon what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a HitlerÂoffer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects.This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent worldÂindeed, of the ever-more-violent worldÂthat each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regardÂnamely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 284 pages
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date January 1st 1985
- First Publication 11/06/80
- Language English
- ISBN 9780374518592
- Edition Not informed
- Category Self-Development
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