Banished Knowledge, The - Hardcover

Miller, Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385267614 ISBN 13: 9780385267618

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, 1990

Synopsis

A psychoanalyst offers, based on years of research, a method that will enable adults to feel the banished child within, and let that child speak and condemn the past's abuse, in order to liberate their lives

About this title

Review:

If, as a child, you were abused or neglected by someone you loved and trusted, it's likely you blamed yourself. To survive as an abused child, you struggled to forget the pain. But this tactic became a life-destroying force. It deadened your ability to feel, to be aware, to remember and, later, reemerged as unresolved rage, perhaps misdirected at your own children. You can halt that cycle and reclaim the truth about the abuse with this book. Miller's conviction--that it's only through feeling loved and cherished that cruelty can be recognized--provides a starting point for healing.

From the Publisher:

In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good, and she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385267614
• ISBN 13: 9780385267618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212