by Alice Miller · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490668825
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
In 'The Body Never Lies,' Alice Miller explores how emotional wounds and childhood traumas can manifest as physical illnesses. Miller argues that repressing emotions and denying suffering can lead to serious health problems. Through literary examples and clinical cases, the author shows how recognizing and expressing these repressed emotions can be a path to healing and well-being.
This book invites reflection on the importance of emotional honesty and how the body often reveals what the mind tries to hide. Miller offers a revealing perspective on the connection between mental and physical health, and how addressing emotional wounds can transform our lives.
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.
