Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
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Miller parts company with Freud on the origins of children's fantasies in this progressive study of repressed memory. Forget the Oedipus complex. Miller reasons that when children suffer abuse, their feelings of pain and rage have nowhere to go in a society that esteems parental power over them as a natural right. Children have no choice but to internalize the anguish, creating a wellspring of fantasy material. This book offers a fresh take on how the unconscious retains memories of childhood and, without appropriate intervention, generates emotional ills and destructive behavior.
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"A provactive critique of traditional therapy's view of childhood . . . This is explosive stuff. I can't imagine anyone coming away from this book without several newfound discoveries about herself and her relation to her parents."--Nancy Evans, Glamour
"Thou Shalt Not Be Aware is that rarest of gems, a highly creative and exciting work which throws a multifaceted light upon the development of human nature in the Western World."--Ashley Montagu
"Alice Miller is not out to 'hang the bastards,' but rather to help create a world of self-conscious and self-loving individuals who don't need, want or know how to abuse others."--Shelia Koren, San Francisco Chronicle
"It is timely. It is powerful. It is painful . . . absorbing, enlightening and provoking."--Louise Lione, Charlotte Observer
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Psychoanalysis and Society's Betrayal of the Child,Alice Miller,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,0374276463,Child Care/Parenting,Clinical Child Psychology,Incest,Incest victims,Mental Illness,Psychoanalysis,Psychology,Sexually abused children,History / General
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