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Banished Knowledge
Body Never Lies
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
Drama of Being A Child
For Your Own Good
Truth Will Set You Free
Untouched Key
Reclaiming Your Life     (New Foreword by Alice Miller)

Banished Knowledge : Facing Childhood Injuries
Banished Knowledge  by Alice Miller
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She believes that we can all, given sufficient motivation and instructions, follow her path - feel, and free, the banished and injured child within us and, by letting that child speak, condemn the abuse and achieve liberation.    More...


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The Body Never Lies : The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
The Body Never Lies  by Alice Miller
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In her latest book, Miller explores the physical effects of  repressing our true feelings from a young age. She argues that repressed emotional responses to early humiliations and unfulfilled needs are inevitably transferred to the body, producing long-term illness. She also believes that the majority of therapists are bent on fostering an attitude of forgiveness, whereas what survivors of parental cruelty need most is someone who shares their feelings of indignation. Miller traces the relationship between inadequate or tyrannical parenting and adult bodily illness, depression and suicide in pithy biographies of Dostoyevski, Chekhov, Kafka, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and many others.    More...

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Breaking Down the Wall of Silence : To Join The Waiting Child
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence  by Alice Miller
 
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"Today I know that we cannot be free if we forget, relativise or excuse the brutality and horrors suffered in childhood. I want to release the memories blocked in me....to remember what I chose to forget and I want to know why I did so....If we know and feel what happened to us then we will never wish to harm ourselves or others now."    Recommended.    More...


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The Drama of Being A Child and the Search for the True Self
Drama of Being A Child by Alice Miller
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In her first book, Alice Miller explains her conviction that violence and cruelty in society have their roots in conventional child-rearing and education. She shows how many children, adapted from birth to the needs and ambitions of their parents, lose the ability to experience and express their true feelings, eventually to become estranged from their real selves.


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For Your Own Good : The Roots of Violence in Child-Rearing
For Your Own Good  by Alice Miller
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Expanding on issues raised in "Drama of Being a Child", Miller challenges the way we rationalise punishment and coersion as being for the child's 'own good', shows the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, and attempts to awaken the child in each of us.


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The Truth Will Set You Free : Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
Truth Will Set You Free  by Alice Miller
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Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work, arguing that only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present. These vivid true stories reveal the perils of early childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will.    More...


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The Untouched Key : Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
Untouched Key by Alice Miller
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A powerful synthesis of Alice Miller's ideas, in which she uses the lives of famous people, such as Picasso, Hitler and Buster Keaton to illustrate the connection between childhood trauma and adult behaviour. She challenges us to see our childhoods as they really were in order to regain our lost awareness and our full life.    US edition only currently available.    More...


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Reclaiming Your Life : A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Regression Therapy to Overcome the Effects of Childhood Abuse
Reclaiming Your Life by Jean Jenson, M.S.W. (New Foreword by Alice Miller)
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"The adult child population [are] suffering from problems in their lives as a result of the defences they needed as children to survive their abusive families. Such recognition has pointed to the need to confront painful feelings rather than just learn new ways to behave... The necessary and final step is to understand what regression is, why it's needed in order to heal, and how to do it."


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