The body never lies
The body never lies: the lingering effects of cruel parenting Alice Miller, Andrew Jenkins (Translator)
Publisher: New York ; London : W.W. Norton, c2005.
ISBN: 0393060659
DDC: 616.8582239
LCC: RC569.5
Summary:
"Using numerous case histories gleaned from her practice, as well as
examining the biographical stories of celebrated writers such as
Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others,
Miller shows how a child's emotional traumas, repressed humiliation,
and bottled rage can manifest themselves as serious adult health
problems. In discussing the lives of these literary giants, Miller
explores the known or, in some cases, unknown traumas that haunted
each author's childhood. More important, Miller connects the writers'
painful childhoods with their later afflictions, which included
depression, anorexia, cancer, and even insanity. While examining
everything from parental spanking to sexual abuse and emotional
blackmail, Miller exposes the societal pressures that converge to
harm children."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213 -214)
Introduction: morality and the body -- 1. Awe of the parents and its
tragic effects: Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche -- 2. The fight
for liberty in the dramas and the unheeded outcry of the body:
Friedrich von Schiller -- 3. The betrayal of memory: Virginia Woolf
-- 4. Self-hatred and unfulfilled love: Arthur Rimbaud -- 5. The
imprisoned child and the necessity of denying pain: Yukio Mishima --
6. Suffocated by mother's love: Marcel Proust -- 7. A past master at
splitting off feelings: James Joyce -- 8. The familiarity of cruelty
to children -- 9. The carousel of feelings -- 10. The body as
guardian of the truth -- 11. Can I say it? -- 12. Kill rather than
feel the truth -- 13. Drugs and the deception of the body -- 14. The
right to awareness -- 15. Deception kills love -- 16. The fictional
diary of Anita Fink.
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