| ISBN |
0393060659 (hardcover) |
| Name |
Miller, Alice |
| Uniform title |
Revolte des Körpers. English |
| Title |
The body never lies : the lingering effects of cruel parenting / Alice Miller ; translated from the German by Andrew Jenkins. |
| Published |
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005. |
| Description |
214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213 -214). |
| Contents |
Introduction : morality and the body -- 1. Awe of the parents and its tragic effects : Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche -- 2. The fight for liberty in the dramas and the unheeded outcry of the body : Friedrich von Schiller -- 3. The betrayal of memory : Virginia Woolf -- 4. Self-hatred and unfulfilled love : Arthur Rimbaud -- 5. The imprisoned child and the necessity of denying pain : Yukio Mishima -- 6. Suffocated by mother's love : Marcel Proust -- 7. A past master at splitting off feelings : James Joyce -- 8. The familiarity of cruelty to children -- 9. The carousel of feelings -- 10. The body as guardian of the truth -- 11. Can I say it? -- 12. Kill rather than feel the truth -- 13. Drugs and the deception of the body -- 14. The right to awareness -- 15. Deception kills love -- 16. The fictional diary of Anita Fink. |
| Summary |
"Using numerous case histories gleaned from her practice, as well as examining the biographical stories of celebrated writers such as Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others, Miller shows how a child's emotional traumas, repressed humiliation, and bottled rage can manifest themselves as serious adult health problems. In discussing the lives of these literary giants, Miller explores the known or, in some cases, unknown traumas that haunted each author's childhood. More important, Miller connects the writers' painful childhoods with their later afflictions, which included depression, anorexia, cancer, and even insanity. While examining everything from parental spanking to sexual abuse and emotional blackmail, Miller exposes the societal pressures that converge to harm children."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subjects |
Child abuse -- Psychological aspects |
| Family violence -- Psychological aspects |
| Discipline of children -- Psychological aspects |
| Parenting -- Psychological aspects |
| Adult child abuse victims -- Mental health |
| Abused children -- Mental health |
| Authors -- Psychology |
| Medicine, Psychosomatic |
| Parent and child |
| Cruelty |
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