ENGLISHGERMAN

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

By Miller , Ruth , Alice; Ward

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9780465012619, 0465012612, 978-0-465-01690-7, 0-465-01690-1, 9780786743612
Language
englishgerman
Format
EPUB
Filesize
187 kB (191672 bytes)
Edition
Revised and updated with a new afterword
Pages
133\0
Time added
2019-09-25 00:17:18

Description

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.

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