The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition
by Alice Miller
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Author: Alice MillerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997
ISBN: 0465016901
Number of pages: 136
Publisher: Basic Books
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- ISBN13: 9780465016907
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Book Reviews of The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition
Book Review: 4 Stars--for earlier version
Summary: 3 Stars
Interesting range of views here. First of all, this version of the book is a significanly revised version of the book originally entitled "Prisoners of Childhood." I, for one, think Alice Miller changed the book for the worse.
The original book describes sensitivity of "gifted" children who resonate with the emotional/psychological energy of their neurotic (or worse) parents and don't have the developmental capibility to cope appropriately. And yes, the book is primarily about narcissism.
The new version, however, became about all "abused" children, which deflated--and devalued--the dynamics of which I felt she had described more effectively in the earlier version. I wonder if the revision was so she could get on the "co-dependence" bandwagon of the 90's--and sell more books!! (but then, that's my cynical side...)
This book profoundly "resonated" with me when I first read it in the earlier version--and I think the book still has relevance in that version. I do not, like some reviewers here, think that Miller was primarily advocating blame (of mothers, primarily); if anything, she was stressing personal responsibility to cease to be a "prisoner of childhood" but through honest exploration that childhood--which is probably the most difficult and painful process a person can go through. To continually blame without getting past it, as I think Miller would agree, never accomplishes anything--one is still a prisoner.
This book is (was) a skillful proponent of psychoanalytic theory and practice--and like another reviewer, changed my life in leading me in a direction that has shown to be remarkably productive.
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