The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller, Ruth Ward (Translator), Alice Miller (Foreword by)
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(Paperback - REV)
- Pub. Date: January 1997
- 144pp
- Sales Rank: 9,838
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 1997
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Format: Paperback, 144pp
- Sales Rank: 9,838
- Series: Art of Mentoring Series
- ISBN-13: 9780465016907
- ISBN: 0465016901
- Edition Number: 3
- Edition Description: REV
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Announcing the thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition of The Drama of the Gifted Child from the world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller.
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Examines how narcissistic parents form and deform the lives of their talented children.
New York Magazine
Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence...her examples are so vivid and so ordinary that they touch the hurt child in us all.
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Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of childhood traumas. She is the author of many books, including The Truth Will Set You Free, Banished Knowledge, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, and For Your Own Good. She lives in Switzerland.
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The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Millerby Annie48
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March 09, 2009: This book spoke to me directly and compassionately. The various case studies cover a wide range of similar childhood deficits that have led to painful adult insecurities. The "gifted" child (in the title) has the gift of adaptation to his or her childhood environment, but that gift can ultimately deprive the child of his or her true self. Alice Miller shows us how talk therapy and revisiting the past with the clarity of an adult mind can totally liberate us from our childhood prison and how we can finally become the person we were always meant to be. The author tells us how and why this is possible in astonishingly simple terms. Through her words and wisdom, we can at last "get" our past and (hurray!) can finally get over it. Most likely, this book will speak to many people who don't yet realize that you have to first look back before you can look ahead.
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October 09, 2006: This book obviously isn't light reading, but it may be the most insightful book I have ever read regarding personal development. The author's theory is that the basis for all future development is the Parent (especially Mother)/Child relationship. Children need the love of their parents and they will do whatever it takes to get it, subverting their own desires, needs, and even personality. The child will then spend the rest of his or her adult life seeking this unconditional love and acceptance, impacting future relationships with other adults, as well as with his or her own children. This book is written for therapists, by a therapist, but it is not too technical for the layperson to understand. I found that although the book was very short, it took me a long time to read because the concepts are so enlightening that they require contemplation. I have found this material extrememly useful for understanding myself, and I believe reading it has allowed me to become a better parent to my daughter.
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