Miller incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin, and Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of their childhoods and the horrors they inflicted on the world. She pleads for an awareness of society’s role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim.
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Feminist Review
“This is a beautiful, fierce, necessary book written by an emotionally intelligent lioness who continues her efforts to break through the wall—one brick, one book— at a time. I highly recommend it.”
“This is a beautiful, fierce, necessary book written by an emotionally intelligent lioness who continues her efforts to break through the wall—one brick, one book— at a time. I highly recommend it.”
Chicago Tribune
“Makes many provocative and persuasive points about the long-term effects of child abuse, the interdependence between society and child-rearing and, finally, the individual’s need to confront memories, however painful.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“The applicability of Miller’s concepts—especially during these divisive times—is what makes her message so cogent for American audiences.”
Moving Worlds
“A penetrating look at how to break the cycle of child abuse in today’s world.”
New Age Journal
“Miller charts valuable territory.”
South Bend Tribune
“What Miller has to say is enlightening…This is not a book that can be read through once and put aside. The reader can return again and again as new truth is recognized.”
Science News
“A moving argument for awareness and condemnation of child abuse."
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Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Living without deception and shame,
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It is a painful but fulfilling experience to stop telling lies to oneself - to face life without deception and illusion, to constantly question yourself and those close to you, quite simply - to live consciously and meaningfully and to accept your past as it truly was. Love and relationships can't help but win over money, sex and power!
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Danger,
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Like the all Alice Miller's works the present one thrives unprepared reader to use his (her ) imagiantion and enter a state of »dreaming« ( meditation or learning from personal experience ). The mentioned state is reserved for rare because it can corrupt untrustworthy mental stability of the suspicious people and push them into unpredictable and uncontrolable moods of behaviour . The work is reserved just to the innocent and persistent people whose flawlessness protect them from dangerous attack of the unknown. Wish a good luck to all the braves traveling the hard path of the personal development, oceangleam
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