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For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (Paperback)

by Alice Miller (Author), Hildegarde Hannum (Translator), Hunter Hannum (Translator) "ANYONE who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to..." (more)
Key Phrases: poisonous pedagogy, spontaneous feelings, soul murder, Adolf Hitler, Silent Drama, Third Reich (more...)
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Miller explores the backgrounds of extreme cases of self-destructive and violent individuals to further her theories on longterm consequences of abusive childrearing. Her conclusions about what creates a drug addict, a murderer, even a Hitler, stray far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature. Miller paints a jolting picture of the violent world each generation helps shape when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. She also offers a way out by striving to resensitize the child in the adult, to unlock an emotional life frozen in repression.

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"This is a book of extraordinary importance, for it makes as clear as a beacon light the root causes of violence as a consequence of our misguided child-rearing practices. For Your Own Good should be read by all who are troubled by what has happened to our world and to our children. I cannot sufficiently stress the importance and urgency of reading [this book]."--Ashley Montagu

"A shattering, frightening [book], and eventually one of the most illuminating and life-view-changing works I have ever read . . . I challenge any thinking and feeling person to read this book [and] not in turn be changed or altered."--Church World


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Product Details
  • Paperback: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 3 edition (January 1, 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0374522693
  • ISBN-13: 978-0374522698
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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