DRAMA OF BEING A CHILD, THE

The author has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and eff
ects of childhood traumas - particularly with her book The Drama of Being a Chil
d. Now she has returned to this book and radically rewritten much of it in the l
ight of her move beyond the framework of psychoanalysis. She believes that viole
nce and cruelty in society have their roots in conventional child rearing and in
education which can create a prison out of childhood. In this edition she descr
ibes how we can use her discoveries to help free ourselves. She explains, with m
any examples, how it is possible to recover lost feelings and repressed history,
resulting in a healthy beginning - for us and for our children.