For Your Own Good: Roots of Violence in Child-rearing
by:
Alice Miller (author)
Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child's 'own good', she illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later...
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Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child's 'own good', she illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, both in the private and public domain. Her message is clear: 'people whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood; will feel no need to harm another person or themselves.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780860688990 (0860688992)
Publish date: December 12th 1987
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
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