by Alice Miller · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483104392
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In 'The Body Never Lies,' Alice Miller explores the consequences of childhood emotional repression and how it affects the body. Through examples and analyses of figures such as Schiller, Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, Miller reveals the connection between repressed emotions and illnesses. The book offers a guide to break the cycle of self-deception and release physical symptoms, allowing readers to understand and heal past traumas.
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.
