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For Your Own Good (edit title/settings)

Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

by Alice Miller (Author) (edit contributors)

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Alice Miller examines the backgrounds of several extreme cases of self-destructive individuals to illustrate the long-term consequences of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions come into conflict with psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which she is vehemently opposed to.

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ANYONE who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children.

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