The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness by Alice Miller, Hildegarde Hannum, Hunter Hannum, Hunter Hannum (Translator), Hildegarde (Translator)
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- Pub. Date: February 1991
- 192pp
- Sales Rank: 323,110
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 1991
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 192pp
- Sales Rank: 323,110
- ISBN-13: 9780385267649
- ISBN: 0385267649
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Dr. Miller explores the clues, often overlooked in biography, that connect unnoticed childhood traumas to adult creativity and destructiveness.
Annotation
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.
Publishers Weekly
Picasso, Buster Keaton, Hitler and Stalin are analyzed to prove that childhood trauma or abuse is related directly to later creativity or destructiveness. ``These profiles . . . are reductionist,'' PW said. ``Swiss psychoanalyst Miller is more successful in showing how Nietzsche's stifling upbringing by pious, controlling women fueled his misogyny and his grandiose ideas.'' Illustrated . (Mar.)
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