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The drama of the gifted child : the search for the true self
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The drama of the gifted child : the search for the true self

Author: Alice Miller; Ruth Neils Ward
Publisher: New York : BasicBooks, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Completely rev. & updatedView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alice Miller; Ruth Neils Ward
ISBN: 0465016901 9780465016907
OCLC Number: 36315249
Language Note: Translated from German.
Description: viii, 136 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: The drama of the gifted child and how we became psychotherapists ---
Depression and grandiosity: two related forms of denial ---
The vicious circle of contempt.
Other Titles: Drama des begabten Kindes.
Responsibility: Alice Miller ; translated by Ruth Ward.
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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. -- Back cover.

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