Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth

Although I am not a psychologist, I am in the helping professions. I am also a trauma survivor and believe Miller's message is a very important one -- that the ills of the world are created one mistreated child at a time. She makes this point with superb examples -- mostly brief descriptions of her other books -- describing documented abuse of dictators like Hitler and Stalin -- and showing how that abuse is perpetuated exponentially when one is a position of power.However, she includes very broad, and I think, grossly unfair indictments of pretty much all those in the helping professions -- indicating if one we would listen to a person's childhood story, perhaps they could heal (instead of having our own agenda, etc.) To me, Miller loses credibility with this book (the second I've purchased of hers, the first being The Drama of the Gifted Child, which I loved and felt was very insightful.)Clearly, Miller had a HORRIBLE experience in the profession she writes so scathingly about -- and that is too bad, because, my experience has been there are MANY EXCEPTIONAL people in the helping professions, who are listening, and helping others achieve deep healing.Still a good read but the personal axe got old pretty quickly, for me.

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It is a painful but fulfilling experience to stop telling lies to oneself - to face life without deception and illusion, to constantly question yourself and those close to you, quite simply - to live consciously and meaningfully and to accept your past as it truly was. Love and relationships can't help but win over money, sex and power!

Excellent!

Alice Miller was a genius. She had the courage to shed light where others do not wished to know and preferred to ignore the issue. God bless her.

Received - in great condition!

Like the all Alice Miller's works the present one thrives unprepared reader to use his (her ) imagiantion and enter a state of »dreaming« ( meditation or learning from personal experience ). The mentioned state is reserved for rare because it can corrupt untrustworthy mental stability of the suspicious people and push them into unpredictable and uncontrolable moods of behaviour . The work is reserved just to the innocent and persistent people whose flawlessness protect them from dangerous attack of the unknown. Wish a good luck to all the braves traveling the hard path of the personal development, oceangleam

Never before have I read words that were so profound. Dr. Miller is the bravest and most courageous person since Dr.Seigmond Freud. He too, had been rebuked by all his medical peers, yet he had the answer dead correct. Women who had experienced sexual hysteria as young adults had been indeed sexually violated as a children.Dr. Alice Miller has indeed shed new light to where evil and abuse is created. We are still in the Dark Ages of how truly one is effected by pain, abandonment, neglect, threats, ritualistic beatings, isolation, spankings, intimidating looks, witnessing abuse and horror,lost, frightened, screams not answered, not comforted and so on as a newborn and throughout his formative years.The irony is, we as a society will not and can not take responsibility of our own creation of evil and hatred due to ignorance, arrogance and denial.

Libro extraordinario de la psicóloga polaca afincada en suiza alice miller.Imprescindible para comprender porqué somos cómo somos lo que nos hacen cuando no podemos defendernos y hasta que punto eso condiciona el resto de nuestras vidas.Especialista en la infancia.Imposible encontrarlo en español.No ha sido traducido.Indispensable.

Very good book. One of her best

Ok book