Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child's 'own good', she illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, both in the private and public domain. Her message is clear: 'people whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood; will feel no need to harm another person or themselves.
- ISBN10 0374518599
- ISBN13 9780374518592
- Publish Date 1 January 1985 (first published 1 January 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 284
- Language English