by Alice Miller · Basic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780465045853
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In 'The Truth Will Set You Free', Alice Miller explores the consequences of child abuse, from emotional blindness to repeat abuse of subsequent generations. Miller encourages readers to confront their painful histories in order to find healing, using vivid true stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. This book examines how spanking and humiliation produce high levels of denial, which leads to emotional blindness and mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting, perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
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.
