by Alice Miller · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483105665
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The Drama of the Gifted Child is a book by Alice Miller that explores the causes of identity loss and how childhood experiences can affect adult life. Miller analyzes how the repression of affective needs and intense feelings in childhood can lead a person to behave according to the expectations of others, rather than being true to themselves. This revised and expanded edition offers a clear and accessible perspective on childhood traumas and their impact on 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.
