{"title":"Alice Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Miller’s works delve deeply into the complexities of childhood and its lasting impact on adult life. Through a thoughtful exploration of trauma, memory, and self-awareness, her books challenge readers to confront difficult truths and foster healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in philosophy and psychology, her writings offer profound insights into personal development and emotional freedom. Those seeking a transformative understanding of human behaviour will find her approach both compelling and enlightening.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-drama-of-being-a-child-by-alice-miller-9781860491016","title":"The Drama Of Being A Child","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of childhood traumas—particularly with her book \u003ci\u003eThe Drama of Being a Child\u003c\/i\u003e. Now she has returned to this book and radically rewritten much of it in the light of her move beyond the framework of psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe believes that violence and cruelty in society have their roots in conventional child-rearing and in education, which can create a prison out of childhood. In this edition, she describes how we can use her discoveries to help free ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe explains, with many examples, how it is possible to recover lost feelings and repressed history, resulting in a healthy beginning—for us and for our children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46868848541932,"sku":"9781860491016","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11208663482850.jpg?v=1759772533"},{"product_id":"the-body-never-lies-by-alice-miller-9780393328639","title":"The Body Never Lies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNever before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness—be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNever one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical childrearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined, adult lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this empowering work, writes Rutgers professor Philip Greven, \"readers will learn how to confront the overt and covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened guidance of Alice Miller.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000769233132,"sku":"9780393328639","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/367273482328.jpg?v=1763303244"},{"product_id":"the-truth-will-set-you-free-by-alice-miller-9780465045853","title":"The Truth Will Set You Free","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReturning to the themes of her classic \u003cem\u003eDrama of the Gifted Child\u003c\/em\u003e, the famed psychoanalyst examines the consequences of cruelty to children and offers ways we can heal our early psychic wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving \u003cem\u003eDrama of the Gifted Child\u003c\/em\u003e showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers, and her book soon became a backlist bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Truth Will Set You Free\u003c\/em\u003e, Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller uses vivid true stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial, which lead in turn to emotional blindness and to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations—a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programmes like Tough Love and of \"child disciplinarians\" like James Dobson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Truth Will Set You Free\u003c\/em\u003e will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000821858540,"sku":"9780465045853","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15394663482353.jpg?v=1763307430"},{"product_id":"the-drama-of-the-gifted-child-third-edition-by-alice-miller-9780465016907","title":"The Drama of the Gifted Child (Third Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy 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 answer and has helped them apply it to their own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFar 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 \u003cem\u003egifted\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithout this gift offered to us by nature, we would not have survived. But merely surviving is not enough. \u003cem\u003eThe Drama of the Gifted Child\u003c\/em\u003e helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398031491308,"sku":"9780465016907","price":48.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a386b71ddbc58fc23dc7aa87a498e8a2.jpg?v=1773781817"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alice-miller.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}