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The Body Never Lies

The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

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The Body Never Lies

By: Alice Miller
Narrated by: Sara Clinton
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An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts.

Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness - be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases. Never one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical childrearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined, adult lives. In this empowering work, writes Rutgers professor Philip Greven, "[listeners] will learn how to confront the overt and covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened guidance of Alice Miller."

©2005 Alice Miller (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Abuse Mental Health Parenting & Families Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships
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Support to people who have been abused or mistreated by parents or carers tends to focus on forgiveness which is often a hidden way to allow the abuse to continue. Alice Miller shows how the adult child accepts the role of the ‘good’ and ‘compliant’ child and continues to meet his or her parents’ expectations at the detriment of his or her own well-being and health. The anger at the abuse is not given a voice, the reconciliation is not genuine and is only another form of compliance. Repression of legitimate anger is not forgiveness. This is important knowledge for any with complex PTSD and therapists.

Ground breaking work

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A great approach to trauma. I wish there were more works available by Alice Miller on Audible.

Foundational work

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Open examples with the writers own experience! Further validation of my own truma, I recommend this book to all healing centres & groups interested in knowing oneself! ,referring from Dr K, Matea, wisdom of truma !🥰🌹thank u Alice Millar .

Honest challenges

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A controversial book, putting forward a thought that opens the mind to other ideas, that could change your perspective

Controversial

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This book has some important insights into the world of the pain that most of us have been through in our early upbringing. Alice Miller does not hold back from what she would call child abuse. It can be at times hard to listen to, as the book brought back memories and feeling of the pain and shame suffered at the hands of my mother. I most enjoy listening to other people stories in the book and how some over come the shame work while it sad to others continue to down a path of suffering that outlasted their parents.

A interesting look into child abuse and the affects at can last

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