Alice Miller, Author . Basic $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-465-04584-6
With the premise that abuse begets abuse, the famed Swiss psychoanalyst mounts an eloquent argument against all forms of cruelty to children, especially corporal punishment. Believing that "[o]ur bodies retain a complete memory of the...
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Alice Miller, Author . Norton $15.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-393-33789-1
Noted Swiss-based psychotherapist Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child
) again addresses the psychological and physical legacy of child abuse in these several hundred responses to readers' letters. But her book is weighed down by...
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Alice Miller, Author Basic Books $12 (150p) ISBN 978-0-465-01693-8
The revised edition of Miller's study of the psychology of successful people features a new introduction by the author; also available in hardcover, $20 *-01694-4 (Aug.)
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Alice Miller, Author, Karen Miller, Author Anchor Books $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-26764-9
Picasso, Buster Keaton, Hitler and Stalin are analyzed to prove that childhood trauma or abuse is related directly to later creativity or destructiveness. ``These profiles . . . are reductionist,'' PW said. ``Swiss psychoanalyst Miller is more...
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Alice Miller, Author, Andrew Jenkins, Translator , trans. from the German by Andrew Jenkins. Norton $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-06065-2
In her latest vehement treatise, Swiss psychoanalyst Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child
) reprises her classic critiques of filial duty. In her view, our culture systematically denies childhood abuse sufferers access to their true feelings....
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James Jennings, Author, Alice Miller, Author, Anonymous, Author Anchor Books $10.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-385-41596-5
When it was first published in 1919 in Vienna and in 1921 in England, this diary kept by a Viennese schoolgirl from the age of 11 to the age of 14 caused a sizable stir regarding its authenticity and its references to sexuality. Contemporary...
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Alice Miller. Tin House, $25.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-947793-76-7
Miller’s solid debut draws on the life of literary translator Georgiana Hyde-Lees, who married W.B. Yeats. The story opens in war-weary 1916 London, at a hospital filled with recuperating soldiers. Georgie has taken a nursing job, where she fends...
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