For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing by Alice Miller (English) Pap

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An analysis of the roots of violence examines the impact of traditional child rearing practices on human violence in adulthood.

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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 conclusions--on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler--offer 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 world--indeed, of the ever-more-violent world--that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard--namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.

Author Biography

Other books by Alice Miller, the internationally renowned psychoanalyst, include The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting, The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth, and The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness. Miller lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

Review

"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

Review Quote

"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

Excerpt from Book

For Your Own Good How Child-Rearing Crushes Spontaneous Feelings: Glimpses of a Revered Tradition "Poisonous Pedagogy" Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child''s outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand: that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child''s innocence. Whatever it was that happened in Paradise involving Adam, Eve, Lilith, the serpent, and the apple, the well-deserved Biblical thunderbolt of prehistoric times, the roar of the Almighty and His pointed finger signifying expulsion-I know nothing about all that. It was my father who drove me out of Paradise. CHRISTOPH MECKEL

Details ISBN0374522693 Author Alice Miller Language English Translator Hunter Hannum ISBN-10 0374522693 ISBN-13 9780374522698 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 649.1 Subtitle Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edition 3rd Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Pages 320 Residence Zurich, US Short Title FOR YOUR OWN GOOD REV/E 3/E DOI 10.1604/9780374522698 AU Release Date 2002-11-14 NZ Release Date 2002-11-14 US Release Date 2002-11-14 UK Release Date 2002-11-14 Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Edition Description 3rd Revised edition Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-11-14 Audience General We've got this

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