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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miller, Alice
Format:	Book
Language:	English German
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton, [2006]
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Table of contents
Uniform Title:	Revolte des Körpers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : morality and the body
I. Saying and concealing
1. Awe of the parents and its tragic effects : Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche
2. The fight for liberty in the dramas and the unheeded outcry of the body : Friedrich von Schiller
3. The betrayal of memory : Virginia Woolf
4. Self-hatred and unfulfilled love : Arthur Rimbaud
5. The imprisoned child and the necessity of denying pain : Yukio Mishima
6. Suffocated by mother's love : Marcel Proust
7. A past master at splitting off feelings : James Joyce
Postscript to part I
II. Traditional morality in therapy and the knowledge of the body
Introduction to part II
8. The familiarity of cruelty to children
9. The carousel of feelings
10. The body as guardian of the truth
11. Can I say it?
12. Kill rather than feel the truth
13. Drugs and the deception of the body
14. The right to awareness
15. Deception kills love
III. Anorexia : the longing for genuine communication
Introduction part III
16. The fictional diary of Anita Fink
Postscript
Afterword.

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