Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
Subtitle: Society's Betrayal of the Child
Contributors: Alice Miller (Introduction); Lloyd deMause (Preface); Hildegarde Hannum (Translator); Hunter Hannum (Translator)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: October 15, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780374525439
First sentence: IT is of course not classical psychoanalysis alone that suppresses the question of how parents consciously, or more often unconsciously, treat their children in the first years of life; all the disciplines I know of that deal with the human psyche share this characteristic, including those with free access to the relevant facts, i.e., psychiatry, psychology, and various schools of psychotherapy.
Description: Originally published in 1984, Miller's book explodes Freud's notions of "infantile sexuality" and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal reality of child abuse, changing forever our thoughts of "traditional" methods of child-rearing.