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The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting (Paperback)
$13.34 - Save $4.13 23% off - RRP $17.47 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Body Never LiesInvestigates the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of the author's patients along with biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, this work shows how a child's humiliation, impotence and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 15 September 2006
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Child Abuse | Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology) | Child & Developmental Psychology | Abnormal Psychology | Coping With Personal Problems
- ISBN 13: 9780393328639 ISBN 10: 0393328635
- Sales rank: 20,342
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Full description for The Body Never Lies
World-renowned psychoanalyst, Alice Miller has devoted a lifetime to studying how the cruelties inflicted on children cripple them as adults. In this new work, Miller goes further, investigating the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body - be it cancer, stroke or other debilitating illnesses. Using the experiences of her patients along with biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness. Never one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical child-rearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined, adult lives. This empowering book will enable readers to come to terms with their repressed emotions and break the cycle of violence.
