by Alice Miller · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385267625
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«Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries» is a psychology essay by Alice Miller, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback.
Miller opposes Freudian drive theory and argues that children are born essentially good: destructive adult behaviors stem from mistreatment suffered in childhood. She also examines how repressing childhood pain limits empathy and maintains that recognizing these wounds helps break cycles of violence.
Work originally published in German as «Das verbannte Wissen»; the English translation of this edition (1991) is by Leila Vennewitz.
For readers interested in psychology, childhood trauma, family relationships and personal development, and for those familiar with Alice Miller's work.
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.
