Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth » (REV)

Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of childhood traumas. She is the author of many books, including The Truth Will Set You Free, Banished Knowledge, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, and For Your Own Good. She lives in Switzerland.

Announcing a new edition of Breaking Down the Wall of Silence from the world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller.

Foreword vii

Part 1 Openings and Glimpses

1 Eve's Initiative 3

2 Out of the Prison of Confusion 9

3 The Psychiatrists' Campaign Against the Act of Remembering 17

4 Blindman's Buff and the Flight from Facts in Psychoanalysis 31

Part 2 Facts

5 Child Sacrifice as "Tradition" 47

6 The Monstrous Consequences of Denial 53

Adolf Hitler's Path to Genocide 53

Nicolae Ceausescu's Vision of Redemption 69

7 The Mistreated Child in the Lamentations of Jeremiah 87

Part 3 Giving Up Hypocrisy

8 The Liberating Experience of Painful Truth 101

9 Protecting Life After Birth 113

Afterword to the Paperback Edition 121

Appendix A Wars and Dictators 129

Appendix B A Law Against the Business of Tyranny 137

Appendix C A Letter to Alice Miller 143

Appendix D Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids 145

Bibliography 149

Index 151

About the Author 165