The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition

The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects 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.

• The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
• The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
• Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• For Your Own Good
• The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame
• The True "Drama of the Gifted Child": The Phantom Alice Miller - The Real Person
• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
• Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries