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The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self |  | Authors: Alice Miller, Andrew Jenkins
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 31707
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0465045855
Dewey Decimal Number: 155
EAN: 9780465045853
ASIN: 0465045855
Publication Date: December 2002
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Returning to the themes of her classic Drama of the Gifted Child, the famed psychoanalyst examines the consequences of cruelty to children and offers ways we can heal our early psychic wounds. More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers, and her book soon became a backlist best seller. In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller uses vivid true stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial, which leads in turn to emotional blindness and to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations--a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of "child disciplinarians" like James Dobson. The Truth Will Set You Free will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject.
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 Break through the family curse September 11, 2009
Jie Bo (Houston, TX USA)
This is a great book to help me understand myself. From my grandma to my mother, and to me, our personal life seem repeat the same fate of the earlier generation's. My daughter is now entering her early adulthood. Is she going to be another victim of this family curse? Reading this book, bring back a lot of my buried childhood memory. I can see how strongly that drives me today on making decisions and choices, and how I response and relate to other people. This awareness bring me a great hope that I can live differently in the rest of my life, and positively impact my daughter, and her children in the future.
Book review July 4, 2009
Janis (Sonoma County)
This book was in great condition and was sent instantly. There were absolutely no problems.
Another great Alice Miller book February 22, 2009
Steffany Belcher (Tenants Harbor, Maine, U.S.A.)
I read all her books and this one is as brave and clear and is a help to me in my own personal growth. A great book for those who have not yet looked closely at their own childhoods and also for those who have. I recommend it to both.
PROSCRIBING POISONOUS PEDAGOGY February 6, 2009
Eternal Justice (Huddersfield, England, UK.)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alice Miller has contributed immensely in empowering and supporting people to annihilate evil. All of Alice Miller's books bravely challenge the status quo, which actively or discretely condones child abuse of all brands.
Poisonous pedagogy continues to be supported and condoned by society, and by the ignorant dictators masquerading as democratic politicians. This is because the governments elected by the majority-evil societies, are simply puppets controlled by the fat cat greedy businesses, which are fuelled by and reliant upon all evil, including child abuse.
Miller draws powerful links between the sufferings of helpless children, and the payback to society. Yes, the Holocaust can be traced back to child abuse. Hitler's childhood is one of many examples Miller uses in this book.
Candidly, only individuals with an all-encompassing peaceful attitude, that extends to babies, children, and animals, can have any valid objection and claim to vengeance, when their own rights are infringed....
Miller is a commendable leader in her field, she can walk her talk with pride and confidence, because all her opinions are thoroughly proven with an enormous amount of research, and faultless logic. Child Rights Activists will find a wealth of info in this and Miller's other books, to help them protect the divinely invested rights of innocent children.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "An eloquent argument against all forms of cruelty to children."
NEWSDAY; "Her writing is powerful, and speaks to the soul."
KIRKUS REVIEWS; "Miller is both prolific and eloquent in her continuing indictment of parents who abuse their children, and societies that tolerate such behaviour."
BOOKLIST; "Miller has long been one of the most powerful and nuanced theoreticians on child abuse."
I am not surprised to see that all 3 customer reviews so far have only given the author 4 stars (UK review). Miller is an admirable pioneer, and very few are lucky enough to gain the absolute heavenly freedom that comes with infallible truth. Five stars from me, but truthfully, all of Miller's books are off the scale.
 no real help for recovering people March 27, 2008
F. R. Nickles Jr. (Stevens Point, WI)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I thought this book of course does a good job explaining Alice Miller's position that abuse has harmful lasting effects. But the title of this book led me to believe it had helpful ideas for recovering people. It doesn't. It just explains her position, and when you are disability and haven't worked in a few years and you are just trying to come to terms with all that's happened to you and you spend money to buy a book with the title that it will help you recover and it doesn't have any helpful ideas then you might feel pretty ripped off, which is what I Think about this book.
I see kids at church where their parents don't discipline them, and they act up and do things that I never would have even thought about doing as a child. I would have had the living daylights beaten out of me, and I would have suffered extensively. I never would have dreamed of it.
I do see that the abuse has had long lasting effects in my life, and I"m seeking to recover, but this book wasn't very helpful.
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