TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Alice
TI  - For your own good: hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence 
SN  - 057113162X
PY  - 1983///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber
KW  - Personality
KW  - Child psychology
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Parent-child relations
KW  - Child development
N1  - Bibliography: p281-284
N2  - Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child's 'own good', she illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, both in the private and public domain. Her message is clear: 'people whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood; will feel no need to harm another person or themselves
ER  -