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DescriptionFor Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Paperback – November 14th 2002 by Alice Miller (Author), Hildegarde Hannum (Translator), Hunter Hannum (Translator) {BinanGotit}  Format: epub / mobi / pdf Product Details Paperback: 282 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 3rd edition (January 1st 1990) Language: English ISBN-10: 0374522693 ISBN-13: 978-0374522698 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. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term effects of abusive child-rearing. 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. 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, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard? Namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression. Amazon.com Review Miller explores the backgrounds of extreme cases of self-destructive and violent individuals to further her theories on long term consequences of abusive childrearing. Her conclusions about what creates a drug addict, a murderer, even a Hitler, stray far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature. Miller paints a jolting picture of the violent world each generation helps shape when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. She also offers a way out by striving to resensitize the child in the adult, to unlock an emotional life frozen in repression. Reviews “This is a book of extraordinary importance, for it makes as clear as a beacon light the root causes of violence as a consequence of our misguided child-rearing practices. For Your Own Good should be read by all who are troubled by what has happened to our world and to our children. I cannot sufficiently stress the importance and urgency of reading [this book].” ― Ashley Montagu “A shattering, frightening [book], and eventually one of the most illuminating and life-view-changing works I have ever read . . . I challenge any thinking and feeling person to read this book [and] not in turn be changed or altered.” ― Church World Top Customer Reviews  Sharing Widget |