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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

by Alice Miller, Ruth Ward
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As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children grow into adults driven to greater and greater achievements by an underlying sense of worthlessness. Never allowed to express their true feelings, and having lost touch with their true selves, they act out their repressed feelings with episodes of depression and compulsive behavior. They in turn inflict the same legacy of repression on their own children. This poignant and thought-provoking book shows how narcissistic parents form and deform the lives of their children. The Drama of the Gifted Child is the first step toward helping readers reclaim their lives by discovering their own needs and their own truth.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780465016907
ISBN10 0465016901
Series/Work OL15464347W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Basic Books
Language EN-GB
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Adult child abuse victims Child Child Psychology Depression Gifted children Infant Kind Mental health Mutter Narcissism Narcissistic injuries Narzissmus Parent and child Parent-Child Relations Parenting Pathological Psychology Psychic trauma Psychoanalyse Psychology, Pathological Psychopathology

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