For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence - Hardcover

Miller, Alice; Hannum, Hildegarde; Hannum, Hunter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374157502 ISBN 13: 9780374157500

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983

Synopsis

A tight clean copy, no markings throughout.\n\nTranslation of: Am Anfang war Erziehung. Bibliography: p. 281-284.\n\n"Alice Miller's For Your Own Good expands on and drives home with great ferocity the point of her earlier and brilliant Prisoners of Childhood. She makes chillingly clear to the many what has been recognized only by the few: the extraordinary pain and psychological suffering inflicted on children under the guise of conventional child-rearing and pedagogy. One may quibble with some of Alice Miller's conclusions, but there is no arguing with her essential and extremely moving thesis." \n-Maurice Sendak

About this title

Review:

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)

Book Description:

* 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0374157502
• ISBN 13: 9780374157500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1