Breaking down the wall of silence : to join the waiting child / Alice Miller ; translation by Simon Worrall.
By: Miller, Alice
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Contributor(s): Worrall, Simon.
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BookPublisher: [London] : Virago Press, 1997Edition: Rev. ed.Description: xv, 176 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 1860493475.Uniform titles: Abbruch der Schweigemauer. English Subject(s): Adult child abuse victims | Child abuse -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 155.4 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Alice Miller has achieved recognition for her revolutionary work on the causes and effects of child abuse - here she works towards demolishing the wall of silence which surrounds the sufferings of early childhood as they affect everyday life, politics, the media, psychiatry and psychotherapy. An infant's trust and dependency on its parents, its longing to be loved and be able to love in return, are boundless. To exploit this dependency, to confuse a child's longings and abuse its trust by pretending that this is somehow good for it, Alice Miller condemns as a criminal act, committed time and again out of ignorance and the refusal to change. The essential first stage in this healing process is feeling the truth of our experience. Only this, Alice Miller writes, can enable us to recognise childhood events and resolve their consequences so that we can lead a conscious, responsible life. If we know and feel what happened to us then, we will never wish to harm ourselves or others now.
Previous ed.: 1991.
Bibliography: (pages 169-170) and index.
Part one: Openings and glimpses -- Eve's initiative -- Out of the prison of confusion -- The psychiatrists' campaign against the act of remembering -- Blindman's buff and the flight from facts in psychoanalysis -- The media and the wall of silence -- Part two: Facts -- Child sacrifice as 'tradition' -- The monstrous consequences of denial Adolf Hitler's path to genocide Nicolae Ceausescu's vision of redemption -- The mistreated child in the lamentations of Jeremiah -- Part three: Giving up hypocrisy -- The liberating experience of painful truth -- Protecting life after birth.
Translation of: Abbruch der Schweigemauer.
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.
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