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For Your Own Good
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence | Alice Miller
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For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. (…more)
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And so, when a man comes along & talks like ones own father & acts like him, even adults.. will submit to this man, will acclaim him, allow themselves to be manipulated by him & put their trust in him, finally surrendering entirely to him without even being aware of their enslavement. One is not normally aware of something that is a continuation of ones own childhood.

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"the way the adult exercises power over the child, a use of power that can go undetected and unpunished like no other."

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