ISBN: 1860493475
Godina izdanja: 1997
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alice Miller - Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: To Join the Waiting Child
Virago, 1997
176 str.
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Alice Miller has achieved recognition for her revolutionary work on the causes and effects of child abuse - here she works towards demolishing the wall of silence which surrounds the sufferings of early childhood as they affect everyday life, politics, the media, psychiatry and psychotherapy. An infant`s trust and dependency on its parents, its longing to be loved and be able to love in return, are boundless. To exploit this dependency, to confuse a child`s longings and abuse its trust by pretending that this is somehow good for it, Alice Miller condemns as a criminal act, committed time and again out of ignorance and the refusal to change. The essential first stage in this healing process is feeling the truth of our experience. Only this, Alice Miller writes, can enable us to recognise childhood events and resolve their consequences so that we can lead a conscious, responsible life. If we know and feel what happened to us then, we will never wish to harm ourselves or others now.

Preface to the Revised Edition
Foreword p. 1
Openings and Glimpses
Eve`s Initiative p. 13
Out of the Prison of Confusion p. 19
The Psychiatrists` Campaign Against the Act of Remembering p. 27
Blindman`s Buff and the Flight from Facts in Psychoanalysis p. 41
The Media and the Wall of Silence p. 54
Facts
Child Sacrifice as `Tradition` p. 71
The Monstrous Consequences of Denial p. 76
The Mistreated Child in the Lamentations of Jeremiah p. 108
Giving Up Hypocrisy
The Liberating Experience of Painful Truth p. 123
Protecting Life After Birth p. 135
Afterword to the Paperback Edition p. 143
Wars and Dictators p. 150
A Law Against the Business of Tyranny p. 158
A Letter to Alice Miller p. 163
Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids p. 165
Bibliography p. 169
Index p. 171


Nonfiction, Psychology, 1860493475