For your own good
Subtitle: hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence
By: Alice Miller ; translated by Hildegarde and Hunter Hannum.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Child rearing  -- Psychological aspects.; Discipline of children  -- Psychological aspects.; Violence  -- Psychological aspects.
Work titles: Am Anfang war Erziehung. 
Description: This contemporary classic by a celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst explores the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere. 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.--From amazon.com.
Notes: Translation of: Am Anfang war Erziehung.

Bibliography: p. 281-284.