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The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155
EAN: 9780465045853
ISBN: 0465045855
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2002-12
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Studio: Basic Books
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - no real help for recovering people
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 ... Read More
Rating: - A Lack of Substance
It has been some time since I had originally read this book, but in coming back and further reflecting upon it, I feel a need to distance myself further from it. There are of course the basic, standard, good premises: bad parenting is bad and hurts children. Yet, when you get depth little more so than that, the book is sorely simplistic. Admonitions to just "love yourself" might just not be all that is needed for a true, curative psychotherapeutic process. As a licensed psychologist, and to plain ... Read More
Rating:  - Be careful what you ask for
Miller's main premise is that God set up mankind for the fall. The truth is that God allowed the tree of knowledge of good and evil to co-exist next to the Tree of Life. Man was given a choice. Choose your own way or choose life. Man has been paying for its choice ever since....
The same goes for discipline. Miller wants to give reason to just let children do what they want to. Go ahead and do that if you want, but I am writing to warn that this thinking is destructive to the soul. ... Read More
Rating:  - Great focus on underlying causes, but not as practical as I hoped.
Alice Miller goes into a facinating and undoubtably true acount on how we are often are own worst enemy. We often poison ourselves with comfortable lies that end up causing more damage than we realize both spiritually and physically.
The Truth will Set you Free, is a wonderful title for the books content. As someone who has been meditating almost daily for the past several years I have grown to develop an awareness of myself that I did not have in earlier years. So I put Alice Miller to the ... Read More
Rating:  - This book will break down your internal walls of silence
I read this book carefully & slowly. I will not be the same again, in that I will no longer go through life, with my eyes closed. Emotionally, this book has freed me to a great extent. I believe then, that it can do so for anyone who is honest & open.
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