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Description

1. 214 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Uniform title

1. Revolte des Körpers. English

Alternative title

1. Revolte des Körpers.

Subject

1. Child abuse > Psychological aspects
2. Family violence > Psychological aspects
3. Discipline of children > Psychological aspects
4. Parenting > Psychological aspects
5. Adult child abuse victims > Mental health
6. Abused children > Mental health
7. Authors > Psychology
8. Medicine, Psychosomatic
9. Parent and child
10. Cruelty
11. Child Abuse > psychology
12. Domestic Violence > psychology
13. Medicine in Literature
14. Parent-Child Relations

Contents

1. Introduction: morality and the body -- Saying and concealing. Awe of the parents and its tragic effects: Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche -- The fight for liberty in the dramas and the unheeded outcry of the body: Friedrich von Schiller -- The betrayal of memory: Virginia Woolf -- Self-hatred and unfulfilled love: Arthur Rimbaud -- The imprisoned child and the necessity of denying pain: Yukio Mishima -- Suffocated by mother's love: Marcel Proust -- A past master at splitting off feelings: James Joyce -- Traditional morality in therapy and the knowledge of the body. The familiarity of cruelty to children -- The carousel of feelings -- The body as guardian of the truth -- Can I say it? -- Rather kill than feel the truth -- Drugs and the deception of the body -- The right to awareness -- Anorexia: the longing for genuine communication. The fictional diary of Anita Fink.

Call number

1. JFD 06-82

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214).

Language (note)

1. Translated from the German.

Author

1. Miller, Alice.

Title

1. The body never lies : the lingering effects of cruel parenting / Alice Miller ; translated from the German by Andrew Jenkins.

Imprint

1. New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214).

Language

1. Translated from the German.

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1. Table of contents

LCCN

1. 2005004299

ISBN

1. 0393060659 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JFD 06-82