Cover of For your own good

For your own good

hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence

by Alice Miller

1983 284 pages eng ★ 4.2 (4 ratings)

Miller proposed here that German traumatic childrearing produced heroin addict Christiane F., serial killer of children Jürgen Bartsch and dictator Adolf Hitler. Children learn to accept their parents' often abusive behaviour against themselves as being "for their own good." In the case of Hitler, i…

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