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by: Alice Miller See Larger Image Used Price: $0.01 Collectible Price: $13.95 Third Party New Price: $1.49 Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8582 EAN: 9780452009295 ISBN: 0452009294 Label: Plume Manufacturer: Plume Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 329 Publication Date: October 31, 1991 Publisher: Plume Sales Rank: 321419 Studio: Plume Related Items: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries see more Editorial Review: Product Description: This groundbreaking classic of child-rearing, originally published in 1984, exploded Freud's notions of 'infantile sexuality' and helped bring to the world's attention the brutal reality of child abuse. Amazon.com Review: Miller parts company with Freud on the origins of children's fantasies in this progressive study of repressed memory. Forget the Oedipus complex. Miller reasons that when children suffer abuse, their feelings of pain and rage have nowhere to go in a society that esteems parental power over them as a natural right. Children have no choice but to internalize the anguish, creating a wellspring of fantasy material. This book offers a fresh take on how the unconscious retains memories of childhood and, without appropriate intervention, generates emotional ills and destructive behavior. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A helpful book by an important psychologist If I had not already read The Drama of the Gifted Child, I would have found this book a key to understanding how our preverbal years lock in data that is key to our world view. However, this book moves into areas I don't agree with, and so I would recommend The Drama of the Gifted Child rather than this one. (A wise reader never really believes any writer has ALL the wisdom, and must take the good parts and leave the lesser ones.) Rating: - Liberating In Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, Alice Miller turns Freud's oedipal complex on its head by exposing the circumstances that led Freud to side against his patients, and thus, against the truth of the life experiences of children. It is a great work by a highly regarded psychiatrist and thinker, well researched, and readily useful in applying to one's own life. For myself, this book (along with The Drama of the Gifted Child) helped to liberate me from the lies of my family and confront the abusers of my ... Read More Rating: - Another masterwork from the Galileo of psychoanalysis Alice Miller makes her perspective so clear and so unavoidable in this book that it is all but impossible not to feel your stomach go up in knots as you try to think about everyone's life that it explains--from best friends to her analysis of author Franz Kafka--but your own. Without hanging Freud in effigy or throwing the baby of his genius out with the bathwater of his philosophical and ethical judgement errors, Miller established her perspective and cry for new psychological techniques ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful, But Contradictory Thou Shalt Not Be Aware is one of the finest theoretical books demonstrating how parents betray their children and how devastating this is for the child. Yet Alice Miller, wonderful writer that she is, cannot fully absorb the significance of her own message. This denial pervades her writing and weakens her book's impact. She spends over three hundred pages of Thou Shalt Not Be Aware showing how parents damage their children, yet she refuses to hold parents accountable. (Page 58: "[People ... Read More Rating: - Has Done Better I read her other book, Breaking Down The Wall of Silence, and enjoyed it. However, I really had to skim this book. It reminded me of the readings I had to do in college. It was not fun to read, it got too technical for me! see more Browse for similar items by category: Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Adolescent Psychology Child Psychology - Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Development Child Psychology - Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Psychology Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Mental Illness Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Psychoanalysis