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For Your Own Good: The Roots of Violence in Child-Rearing

For Your Own Good: The Roots of Violence in Child-Rearing

by Alice Miller (Author)

Synopsis

Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child's 'own good', she illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, both in the private and public domain. Her message is clear: 'people whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood; will feel no need to harm another person or themselves.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New ed of "For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing and the Roots of Violence"
 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 30 Apr 1987
ISBN 10: 0860688992
ISBN 13: 9780860688990
Book Overview: * A challenge to the child-rearing practices of punishment and coercion, by the acclaimed author of THE DRAMA OF BEING A CHILD. * 'This book can change lives' - Maurice Sondak.

Media Reviews
Dr Miller's books, refreshingly free of jargon, read like picturesque fiction * RUTH RENDELL *
All too believable... Her thesis is icily simple. * NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY *
Author Bio
Alice Miller is one of the leading authorities on the causes and consequences of child-abuse and is the author of numerous books on the subject.