Name: for your own good,hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence
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Author: Alice Miller
ISBN: 9780374522698

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for your own good,hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alice Miller

Translated by

Hildegarde Hannum

Hunter Hannum

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

0374522693

ISBN13

9780374522698

Edition No.

0003

Synopsis "for your own good,hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence"

For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions--on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler--offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects. This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world--indeed, of the ever-more-violent world--that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard--namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.

Alice Miller

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Alicja “Alice Miller” Englard-Miller fue una psicóloga, psicoanalista y filósofa de origen polaco-suizo, nacida en 1923 y fallecida en 2010, que se convirtió en una de las voces más influyentes del siglo XX en cuestionar las formas tradicionales de crianza. Tras formarse en filosofía, psicología y sociología, ejerció como psicoanalista durante dos décadas antes de dedicarse a la escritura, aportando con sus reflexiones al debate sobre el maltrato infantil, la memoria emocional y las heridas invisibles de la infancia.

En su libro Por tu propio bien (1980), Alice Miller denuncia lo que ella llama “pedagogía venenosa”: una crianza basada en castigos, humillaciones o amenazas con la excusa del “bien del niño”. Su obra sostiene que este tipo de educación no solo daña el desarrollo emocional del niño, sino que puede generar adultos con patrones de violencia, sumisión o desconexión interior. Con un estilo claro y crítico, Miller impulsó una mirada radical sobre la infancia, la autoridad y la responsabilidad moral del adulto.

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