The Drama of the Gifted Child

The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

Alice Miller

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Basic Books
03 December 1996

Social, group or collective psychology; Health & Self-Help; Child care & upbringing; Popular psychology

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answerand has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents expectations and win their love.

Alice Miller writes, When I used the word gifted in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way.

I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb Without this gift offered us by nature, we would not have survived.

But merely surviving is not enough.

The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.

By: Alice Miller
Imprint: Basic Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 112g
ISBN: 9780465016907
ISBN 10: 0465016901
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 03 December 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

Narcissism has rarely been written about with the clarity and quiet insights of this modest, thought-provoking work. --Washington Post Book World An unpretentious little book with an amazing impact...Many readers find themselves portrayed with an accuracy and empathy that seem uncanny, as if the author had been a silent, unseen witness to their childhood [and] their innermost and secret selves.--Vogue Full of wisdom and perception.--The New Republic Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence...her examples are so vivid and so ordinary they touch the hurt child in us all--The New York Magazine