[soc.feminism] Alice Miller

jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (12/02/90)

In article <RBERLIN.90Nov27193805@birdland.sun.com> rberlin@birdland.Eng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin) writes:
>Aside: I never cared much for Freud until I read some of Alice
>  Miller's work.  For those of you who might be interested, I think
> [...]
>  I highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks s/he may have been
>  abused as a child.  (And especially if your response to that
>  statement is a highly intense negative reaction.)  I also recommend
>  it to anyone interested in feminist goals of social change because

I would suggest that *everyone* read _Thou Shalt Not Be Aware_ and
_The Drama of the Gifted Child_.  After that, if you have the time, read
everything else she's written.

Miller has restored what little faith I ever had in psychology as an
institution and its clash with egalitarianism...


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