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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition by Miller, Alice is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition about?
This “rare and compelling” (New York Magazine) bestseller examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual's management of repressed anger and pain. Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents'expectations and win their'love.'Alice Miller writes,'When I used the word'gifted'in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb.... Without this'gift'offered us by nature, we would not have survived.'But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.
Who reads The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition?
It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Miller, Alice
- Publisher
- Basic Civitas Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780465016907
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Family & Relationships, Medical, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (9,762 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Prisoners of Childhood : the Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self (1981)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child the Search for the True Self ; Completely Revised and Updated, with a New Introduction by the Author (1981)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition (1990)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition (2008)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition (1997)
- Prisoners of Childhood : the Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self (1990)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child (1981)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child : The Search for the True Self (2008)
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