The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer–and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer–and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.
Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents’ expectations and win their “love.” Alice Miller writes, “When I used the word ‘gifted’ in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb…. Without this ‘gift’ offered us by nature, we would not have survived.” But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.
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Brilliant, eloquent, truthful, and painful. I started working with a great psychologist/therapist last year to deal with a few issues that i had diagnosed in myself and also to deal with PTSD. In one of our sessions, much to my surprise, he linked these issues back to my childhood and my parents and especially my mother. Apparently my mother has highly narcissistic tendencies and my father, with his indifference, has played the role of the enabler. As i started to do more research and read more to understand so many complicated issues…
Excellent book This is a great book that helps you delve into the root causes of current pain. Itâs uncomfortable work and the author doesnât sugarcoat it. But itâs very rewarding if you let yourself go on the scary journey of healing, which does require you to sit with darker facets of yourself and your past.The people who wrote complaining reviews are missing the point â in order to heal, you have to embrace the hurt first. Then, like a snake, you metaphorically shed that skin.Also,…
Amazing, life-changing must-read for children of narcissists I am giving this book 5 stars because I think it is a must-read. After reading it 3 times over a number of years, I can honestly say it has been life-changing, the key to so many unanswered questions and neuroses. However, I must say that I like the original edition better. Even though it was full of Freudian psychological terminology, and it challenged me intellectually to read it, the process of looking up and familiarizing myself with the terms made me feel like I had unearthed a rare jewel,…