Breaking Down the Wall of Silence The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth

by Miller, Alice

• ISBN13: 9780465015047
• ISBN10: 0465015042
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-09
• Publisher: BASIC BOOKS

Summary

Miller incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin, and Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of their childhoods and the horrors they inflicted on the world. She pleads for an awareness of society's role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim.

Author Biography

Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of childhood traumas. Her books include The Drama of the Gifted Child, Banished Knowledge, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, and For Your Own Good. She lives in Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Openings and Glimpses
Eve's Initiative	p. 3
Out of the Prison of Confusion	p. 9
The Psychiatrists' Campaign Against the Act of Remembering	p. 17
Blindman's Buff and the Flight from Facts in Psychoanalysis	p. 31
Facts
Child Sacrifice as "Tradition"	p. 47
The Monstrous Consequences of Denial	p. 53
Adolf Hitler's Path to Genocide	p. 53
Nicolae Ceausescu's Vision of Redemption	p. 69
The Mistreated Child in the Lamentations of Jeremiah	p. 87
Giving Up Hypocrisy
The Liberating Experience of Painful Truth	p. 101
Protecting Life After Birth	p. 113
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 121
Wars and Dictators	p. 129
A Law Against the Business of Tyranny	p. 137
A Letter to Alice Miller	p. 143
Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 151
About the Author	p. 165
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