by Alice Miller · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385267649
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«The Untouched Key» is Alice Miller's psychology essay, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Starting from childhood as the key, Miller analyzes Nietzsche, Picasso, Käthe Kollwitz, and Buster Keaton to show how abuse and neglect shape adult life. She argues that no one is born destructive: the lack of a compassionate witness can lead to violence, while other abused children channel their pain into art.
The English edition was published in 1991; the German original, Der gemiedene Schlüssel, appeared in 1988.
A book for psychology and mental health readers who want to understand the impact of childhood trauma 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.
