by Alice Miller · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518374511
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«Am Anfang war Erziehung» is Alice Miller's psychology essay, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (321 pages, in German).
Alice Miller argues that the «poisonous pedagogy», her name for a child-rearing approach that believes it seeks the child's good, can have devastating consequences. Through the biographies of Christiane F., Adolf Hitler and Jürgen Bartsch, she shows how drug addiction, psychosis and violence can be a reflection of unprocessed childhood experiences.
The work was originally published in 1980; this edition belongs to the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection (number 951).
For educators, parents and psychology readers who want to understand how child-rearing patterns shape adult life.
Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her 1979 book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential in the fields of child development, psychotherapy, and trauma. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.
