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by: Alice Miller See Larger Image Used Price: $8.49 Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 300 EAN: 9781903985533 ISBN: 1903985536 Label: Basic Books Manufacturer: Basic Books Number Of Pages: 8000 Publication Date: September 26, 2002 Publisher: Basic Books Sales Rank: 1911857 Studio: Basic Books Related Items: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness see more Editorial Review: Product Description: More than 20 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 'The Drama of Being a Child' shows how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. In 'The Truth Will Set You Free' Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. She says, 'I simply refuse to see obedience as a virtue, curiosity as a sin, and ignorance of good and evil as an ideal state'. 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's vivid true stories 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. This denial, necessary for the child's survival, leads to emotional blindness and finally 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, warns Miller. 'The Truth Will Set You Free' should provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - no real help for recovering people I thought this book of course does a good job explaining Alice Miller's position that abuse has harmful lasting effects. But the title of this book led me to believe it had helpful ideas for recovering people. It doesn't. It just explains her position, and when you are disability and haven't worked in a few years and you are just trying to come to terms with all that's happened to you and you spend money to buy a book with the title that it will help you recover and it doesn't have any helpful ... Read More Rating: - A Lack of Substance It has been some time since I had originally read this book, but in coming back and further reflecting upon it, I feel a need to distance myself further from it. There are of course the basic, standard, good premises: bad parenting is bad and hurts children. Yet, when you get depth little more so than that, the book is sorely simplistic. Admonitions to just "love yourself" might just not be all that is needed for a true, curative psychotherapeutic process. As a licensed psychologist, and to plain ... Read More Rating: - Be careful what you ask for Miller's main premise is that God set up mankind for the fall. The truth is that God allowed the tree of knowledge of good and evil to co-exist next to the Tree of Life. Man was given a choice. Choose your own way or choose life. Man has been paying for its choice ever since.... The same goes for discipline. Miller wants to give reason to just let children do what they want to. Go ahead and do that if you want, but I am writing to warn that this thinking is destructive to the soul. ... Read More Rating: - Great focus on underlying causes, but not as practical as I hoped. Alice Miller goes into a facinating and undoubtably true acount on how we are often are own worst enemy. We often poison ourselves with comfortable lies that end up causing more damage than we realize both spiritually and physically. The Truth will Set you Free, is a wonderful title for the books content. As someone who has been meditating almost daily for the past several years I have grown to develop an awareness of myself that I did not have in earlier years. So I put Alice Miller to the ... Read More Rating: - This book will break down your internal walls of silence I read this book carefully & slowly. I will not be the same again, in that I will no longer go through life, with my eyes closed. Emotionally, this book has freed me to a great extent. 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