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Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self » (REV)

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Authors: Alice Miller, Ruth Ward (Translator), Alice Miller
ISBN-13: 9780465016907, ISBN-10: 0465016901
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: December 1996
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Alice Miller

Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of childhood traumas. Her books include The Drama of the Gifted Child, Banished Knowledge, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, and For Your Own Good. She lives in Switzerland.

Book Synopsis

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it

Washington Post Book World

A book that patients prescribe...the therapists are reading it because their patients are recommending it.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction to the Revised Edition (1994)	1
1	The Drama of the Gifted Child and How We Became Psychotherapists	27
	The Poor Rich Child	30
	The Lost World of Feelings	34
	In Search of the True Self	38
	The Therapist's History	44
	The Golden Brain	50
2	Depression and Grandiosity: Two Related Forms of Denial	52
	The Vicissitudes of the Child's Needs	52
	The Illusion of Love	57
	Depressive Phases During Therapy	74
	The Inner Prison	77
	A Social Aspect of Depression	82
	The Legend of Narcissus	86
3	The Vicious Circle of Contempt	87
	Humiliation for the Child, Disrespect for the Weak, and Where It Goes from There	87
	Working with Contempt in Therapy	98
	"Depravity" as "Evil" in Hermann Hesse's Childhood World	110
	The Mother as Society's Agent During the First Years of Life	116
	The Loneliness of the Contemptuous	119
	Achieving Freedom from Contempt and Respecting Life	123
	Afterword	129
	Works Cited	137
	Appendix	141
	Index	145

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