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Prisoners of Childhood

Alice Miller

  • 131 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1979
  • 19 editions
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1 About this book

Examines the cyclical patterns of parental exploitation and the resulting loss of self-esteem in their children.

Good for readers who want: mental health, self-improvement, psychology, and a short read.

  • Pathological Psychology
  • Mental health
  • Repression (Psychology)
  • Self-help
  • Child psychology
  • Psychology, pathological
  • Psychology
  • Psychology Repression

2 About Alice Miller

1923–2010

Alice Miller (Swiss Standard German:; born Alicja Englard; 12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010) was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her 1979 book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981.

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