Title The body never lies : the lingering effects of cruel parenting / Alice Miller ; translated from the German by Andrew Jenkins.

Publication Info.	New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	616.8582 MILLER	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214).
Contents	Introduction: morality and the body -- Saying and concealing. Awe of the parents and its tragic effects: Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche -- The fight for liberty in the dramas and the unheeded outcry of the body: Friedrich von Schiller -- The betrayal of memory: Virginia Woolf -- Self-hatred and unfulfilled love: Arthur Rimbaud -- The imprisoned child and the necessity of denying pain: Yukio Mishima -- Suffocated by mother's love: Marcel Proust -- A past master at splitting off feelings: James Joyce -- Traditional morality in therapy and the knowledge of the body. The familiarity of cruelty to children -- The carousel of feelings -- The body as guardian of the truth -- Can I say it? -- Rather kill than feel the truth -- Drugs and the deception of the body -- The right to awareness -- Anorexia: the longing for genuine communication. The fictional diary of Anita Fink.
Language	Translated from the German.
Subject	Child abuse -- Psychological aspects.
	Family violence -- Psychological aspects.
	Discipline of children -- Psychological aspects.
	Parenting -- Psychological aspects.
	Adult child abuse victims -- Mental health.
	Abused children -- Mental health.
	Authors -- Psychology.
	Medicine, Psychosomatic.
	Parent and child.
	Cruelty.
	Child Abuse -- psychology.
	Domestic Violence -- psychology.
	Medicine in Literature.
	Parent-Child Relations.
Added Title	Revolte des Körpers. English
ISBN	0393060659 hardcover

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