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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined
so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on
the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the
biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf,
Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's
humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as
adult illness--be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating
diseases. Never one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges
society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment
and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical
childrearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined,
adult lives. In this empowering work, writes Rutgers professor
Philip Greven, "readers will learn how to confront the overt and
covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened
guidance of Alice Miller."
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of
emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided
thousands of readers with an answer,and has helped them to apply it
to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to
hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to
meet our parents' expectations and win their "love." Alice Miller
writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind
neither children who receive high grades in school nor children
talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have
survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to
unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb, Without this 'gift' offered
us by nature, we would not have survived." But merely surviving is
not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our
life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.
Now revised and updated to reflect the author's new insights, this
modern classic explains why many of the most successful children
and adults are plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation--and
tells how to break the cycle.
The author has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the
causes and effects of childhood traumas - particularly with her
book "The Drama of Being a Child". Now she has returned to this
book and radically rewritten much of it in the light of her move
beyond the framework of psychoanalysis. She believes that violence
and cruelty in society have their roots in conventional child
rearing and in education which can create a prison out of
childhood. In this edition she describes how we can use her
discoveries to help free ourselves. She explains, with many
examples, how it is possible to recover lost feelings and repressed
history, resulting in a healthy beginning - for us and for our
children.
More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst
wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and
their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving Drama
of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and
deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's
stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with
readers, and her book soon became a backlist best seller.In The
Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal
tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth
of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the
present, she argues. Miller uses vivid true stories to reveal the
perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless
obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain
development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce
dangerous levels of denial, which leads in turn to emotional
blindness and to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the
ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself,
the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later
generations- a message vitally important, especially given the
increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of "child
disciplinarians" like James Dobson. The Truth Will Set You Free
will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's
latest thinking on this important subject.
Since the publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child in 1981,
Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the
causes and effects of child abuse, on violence toward children and
its cost to society. Now, in The Untouched Key, she explores the
clues, often overlooked in biography, that connect childhood
traumas to adult creativity and destructiveness. 19 drawings.
Alice Miller examines the backgrounds of several extreme cases of self-destructive individuals to illustrate the long-term consequences of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions come into conflict with psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which she is vehemently opposed to.
Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022 What Fire is about how to
continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its
grip on us all, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings
are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive?
What songs are still worth singing? In her third collection, Alice
Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at
what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.
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Drabacus (Paperback)
Susan Ainsworth; Edited by Gillian Clarke; Illustrated by Grace Mills; Read by Alice Miller
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R302
Discovery Miles 3 020
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The poems in this extraordinary full-length collection by Alice
Miller ask you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. They
are curious, restless, bold; they marry lyrical music and intricate
metaphor as they search for other human voices beyond the rumblings
of the apocalypse and the stubbornness of myth. From bare
battlefields to crisp Antarctica to the gates of Troy, from
re-written history to love story, these poems ask for something
more from the world than just riding till the spoke breaks. A poet
for whom one way's easy but an easy way's / worse, Miller in this
collection traces a path that leads beyond our limits - to where we
set the sky on silent, where we're braver than science, and where
we try to un-glimpse what we've lost.
Everyone has their own idea about what justice is. Nick Romano went
over the rail of the Smithfield Street Bridge and into the river.
His grandfather wants to know why but he doesn't want the police
involved. He hires Dave Casteel and his maverick team of
investigators to find out what happened. In the search for 17 year
old Nick, the lines blur and it's difficult to define who the
criminals are. Who is right and who is wrong? Dave, DeMarco, Kelly
and Brett solve the case but in the process they find out more
about each other than they ever wanted to know.
Pagan Astrology for the Spirit and Soul explores and emphasizes an
astrology that emphasizes the Moon and the dynamics of polarity in
the form of masculine-feminine relationships. This non-traditional
approach to astrology is both fun and enlightening, opening the
heart and mind to new insights in the birth chart using the
symbolism of a Wiccan coven. Ideal for pagan divinatory studies, it
has much to offer all astrologers. Designed to trigger the reader's
intuitive gifts through words as imagery, Pagan Astrology for the
Spirit and Soul takes a close look at each of the planets, placing
them in the context of the time-honored roles of the coven. In this
context Alice Miller presents the human personality as a coven, a
blueprint for the whole being. Each planet is explored through its
sign position and role, with special attention given to the section
on the outer planets and the incoming Age of Aquarius. The planets:
The Moon: The High Priestess Moon; The Sun: The High Priest; Venus:
The Maiden; Mars: The Maiden's Working Partner; Mercury: The Fetch;
Jupiter: Mercury's Partner; Saturn: The Traditionalist; Uranus:
Saturn's Partner; Neptune: The Subconscious Master; Pluto: Mother
of Rebirth.
In the 8th novel of the SILVER HAWK Warrior series, I Am My Own
Master, Joseph's son is threatened. In order to spare his son,
Joseph is taken to Tajikistan, a country in the Middle East, where
he discovers a horrible secret. He enters a world of child abuse
and sexual slavery to save the son of an exiled King. When he
returns to the U.S.A, Joseph ignores the danger facing him and he
travels to New York City, making a last and final attempt to free
himself from the bonds of being an owned fighter. If you enjoyed I
Am My Own Master and you can't get enough of Joseph & Gianni,
look for the spin-off to the SILVER HAWK series, Everything He
Wanted Uninhibited. Discover an up close and personal look at their
story. (Contains Adult Content)
Author Alice Miller tells the story of Joseph Silver Hawk Argent
and Gianni Tassiano's friendship and loyalty toward one another in
SILVER HAWK, A Warrior's Respect. When they were boys, Gianni
Tassiano crawled through a vent to bring bread to eight year old
Joseph Argent who was being kept in a basement under the cruel
abuse of Don Antone. As they grew, their friendship remained and
although Joseph Silver Hawk Argent struggled to forget the pain of
being abused, he never forgot Gianni's acts of kindness that kept
him alive. After ten long years of mistreatment, in A Warrior's
Respect, Joseph begins to understand what it means to have respect
for himself and learns that he is worthy of love. He learns that in
spite of all that has happened to him, he is a true warrior and
with the respect he finds for himself comes peace. If you enjoyed A
Warrior's Respect, follow Joseph in SILVER HAWK I Am My Own Master
(Volume 8) of the SILVER HAWK series.
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