For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0723B6ZTW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 581 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book also presents listeners with useful solutions in this regard - namely, to re-sensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.. Her conclusions - on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler - offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects. For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world - indeed, of the ever-more-violent world - that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing,
"Harsh in disciplining your kids?" according to Fabulinus. You may want to rethink that.Due to my relatively new status as parent to a toddler and having known many people both internally within my immediate and distant family and externally amongst close friends and associates who've suffered under excessively harsh parenting, I am often drawn to child psychology literature and any other psych lit that will help me understand how to interpret the more negative aspects of their adult behavior. Th. JEAN DAVID BEYER said IMAO, Alic Miller's finest book. Hard to read.. This my favorite of all of Alice Miller's books. It helps understand what makes people tick. It explains so much that otherwise remains obscure, such as how Adolf Hitler could arise and be supported by almost the entire German nation. And not because of heredity or conjunction of the planets. And while she does not pontificate about it, one can infer a warning that if we do not improve our child-rearing practices, things are only going to. "excellent" according to Maya. Well done Alice Miller, it is a great book. I found Hitler story very interesting. The book mostly inform us about psychology and family dysfunction effect on small children .It explains beautifully our behavior but mainly addressed parents not so stable , cruel treatment of their own children .Highly recommend, a must for everyone.