The Drama Of The Gifted Child

This “rare and compelling” (New York Magazine) bestseller
examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has
on an individuals management 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.