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April 19th, 2011

The first publication of Drama of Being a Child and of this 1997 edition are separated by fifteen years of experience – the author’s experience with her own self-therapy and with other recent therapy methods, and finally her knowledge of the life histories of the several thousand readers who have written to her. The research into childhood she has undertaken
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April 19th, 2011

Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child’s ‘own good’, she illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, both in the private and public domain. Her message is clear: ‘people whose
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