The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

Paperback. Pub Date: December 2006 Pages: 224 in Publisher: Basic Books More than 20 years ago a little known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world the deeply In simple but powerful prose. moving The Drama of Being a Child shows how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. She says. I simply refuse to see obedience as a virtue. curiosity as a sin. and ignorance of good and evil as an ideal state. Only by emacing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present. she argues. Miller's vivid true stories reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest researc...