by Alice Miller · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780374522698
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In 'For Your Own Good', Alice Miller explores the consequences of parental cruelty in child development and its impact on adult violence. Through case analyses, Miller examines how abusive parenting practices can lead to problems such as addiction or extreme violence. This study offers solutions to resensitize the wounded inner child and unlock repressed emotional life, questioning traditional parenting practices and their perpetuation of generational violence.
Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her 1979 book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential in the fields of child development, psychotherapy, and trauma. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.
