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| The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Alice Miller
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (79 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8666
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3 Rev Upd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0465016901
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8582239
EAN: 9780465016907
ASIN: 0465016901
Publication Date: December 23, 1996
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 always there February 15, 2008
I read this book for the first time when it was first published and it had a great impact on me and on understanding how I had grown. It was painful but at the same time healing. I continue reading it and it continues having those characteristics. Thanks
 Another tiny view in the quest for freedom from self February 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dr. Alice Miller takes us on a journey from her subtley unique perspective, of the thoughts and programs that enslave us all. This easy to read book sheds much needed light on the crippling mindsets we inherit from our upbringing. These mindsets lead to a bewildering array of behaviors and automatic responces that baffle, hurt and enslave us and the ones closest to us. A good read.
Finding the true self and then becoming it November 26, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is written with very deep insight, compassion, eloquence, clarity and power. Alice Miller speaks of the vital importance for us to discover our own personal truth that puts us in touch with our true self. As Ms. Miller states it can be very painful to discover our real feelings since many of us have repressed hurt feelings from childhood trauma that we have buried and we have hid these feelings not only from our parents but from ourselves as well.
What I have learned from this remarkable book is that we hide these feelings from our parents so they will `love' us, but it's not our true self that they love since it is these hidden feelings that are the manifestations of who we really are. In its place we give our parents an image of ourselves so as to make them happy. This fulfills their needs but we hide our own since we fear that the expression of our own needs will lead to parental rejection and correspondingly to a loss of their love.
When we hide and suppress these childhood unacknowledged needs then the basis of all our future relationships will be determined by these unrequited needs and they become the unconscious motivations that drive us throughout our adult lives.
It is only by getting in touch with these lost needs that we can begin to discover those missing parts of ourselves. This is just the beginning to true "self discovery" that is, it is the beginning to discovering and becoming who we truly are so that, eventually, we can become who we are truly destined to be.
A fine book indeed.
One of the Best Books Ever Written November 6, 2007
This is one of the best books ever written and one of the most powerful tools for one's self-discovery, to be free from narcissism. Miller has provided strong insights into this book, which encouraged and forced us to face the truth from our childhood, and why we hid our true selves as children.
We are all living in a narcissist society, and we have learned our narcissist traits to some degree. For us to get rid of these traits, we must seek to be free from the deadly emotional influences that shaped our lives. This book is one of the keys for which we will acquire to be free.
I would strongly recommend "The Drama of the Gifted Child" for those who seek for the truth about themselves.
Critically important November 5, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I cannot stress enough how important this book is if one is at all interested in truly understanding the genesis and repair of childhood emotional damage, in many forms.
With stunning insight Alice Miller has helped me personally understand more about my own inner dynamics than I could have ever understood had I not found her work. Read it - it will change your life.
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