The Drama of the Gifted Child The Search for the True SelfRevised ed - 1997 publication

This is the description on the book itself: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 use the word 'gifted' in the titel, 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 in 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 discoerving our own crucial needs and our own truth.