Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (1946-2011) was a psychoanalyst and the award-winning author of Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, Anna Freud: A Biography, and Why Arendt Matters. She lived in Toronto.
This brilliant, provocative book . . . exposes American society's prejudice against its children-'childism'-and the harm it causes them. . . . A clarion call for urgent action. -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * Publishers Weekly * [Childism] concludes with a clarion call for programs of parent education and abuse prevention, for expanded parenting support services, and for closer attention to children's voices. . . Among the book's key insights is that many behaviors that we don't think of as abuse are in fact abusive because they place parental needs above children's developmental needs. -Steven Mintz, Washington Post -- Steven Mintz * Washington Post * More than a study of child abuse, [Childism] excavates the psychological foundations of destructive attitudes toward children. -Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education -- Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *