| Alice Miller |
The Drama of the Gifted Child |
Reviews and Commentary for The Drama of the Gifted Child : The
Search for the True Self
Book Description:
As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents
expectations, far too many children grow into adults driven to greater
and greater achievements by an underlying sense of worthlessness.
Never allowed to express their true feelings, and having lost touch with
their true selves, they act out their repressed feelings with episodes of
depression and compulsive behavior. They in turn inflict the same
legacy of repression on their own children.
This poignant and thought-provoking book shows how narcissistic
parents form and deform the lives of their children. The Drama of the
Gifted Child is the first step toward helping readers reclaim their lives
by discovering their own needs and their own truth. --This text refers
to the paperback edition of this title.
Synopsis:
Now revised and updated to reflect the author's new insights, this
modern classic explains why many of the most successful children and
adults are plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation--and tells how
to break the cycle.
Synopsis:
People can regain their long-lost authentic sense of truly being alive by
understanding how that they, as children, adapted to their parents'
narcissistic needs and locked their true selves away in "solitary
confinement."
Review By Amazon.com
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