Breaking Down the Wall of Silence : The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth

Miller incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin, and Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of their childhoods and the horrors they inflicted on the world. She pleads for an awareness of society’s role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim. Contents 8 Foreword 10 PART ONE ∼ OPENINGS AND GLIMPSES 22 1. Eve's Initiative 24 2. Out of the Prison of Confusion 30 3. The Psychiatrists' Campaign Against the Act of Remembering 38 4. Blindman's Buff and the Flight from Facts in Psychoanalysis 52 PART TWO ∼ FACTS 66 5. Child Sacrifice as "Tradition" 68 6. The Monstrous Consequences of Denial 74 Adolf Hitler's Path to Genocide 74 Nicolae Ceausescu's Vision of Redemption 90 7. The Mistreated Child in the Lamentations of Jeremiah 108 PART THREE ∼ GIVING UP HYPOCRISY 120 8. The Liberating Experience of Painful Truth 122 9. Protecting Life After Birth 134 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 142 Appendix A: Wars and Dictators 150 Appendix B: A Law Against the Business of Tyranny 158 Appendix C: A Letter to Alice Miller 164 Appendix D: Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids 166 Bibliography 170 Index 172 A 172 B 173 C 173 D 176 E 176 F 176 G 177 H 178 I 179 J 179 K 179 L 179 M 180 N 181 O 181 P 181 R 182 S 183 T 184 U 185 V 185 W 185 Z 185 About the Author 186 Miller uses psychohistorical analyses of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Nicolae Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of their childhoods and those which they inflicted on the world. She pleads for universal awareness of how traumatic childhoods influence our lives

Announcing a new edition of Breaking Down the Wall of Silence from the world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller.

Focuces on how child abuse should be recognized, condemned, and dealt with before victims become adults.