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Year of Publication: 1997
Anita EckstaedtYear of Publication: 1997
»Der Struwwelpeter« Fiction and Interpretation
A psychoanalytical study
Der Struwwelpeter was first published 150 years ago and has been a bestseller ever since. How can we account for the enduring relevance of this picture book after a century and a half, when most readers find it inhumane and harsh, gruesome and disturbing?
Children (and adults) need stories which deal with life and death. Thanks to Anita Eckstaedt's study, we can...
Children (and adults) need stories which deal with life and death. Thanks to Anita Eckstaedt's study, we can...
Year of Publication: 2023
Andreas HeinzYear of Publication: 2023
The Colonized Brain and the Ways of Revolt
The modern understanding of brain function and mental illness is deeply shaped by the projection of colonial hierarchies onto the brain: supposedly higher brain centres and functions are attributed with the supervision of supposedly primitive drives and desires. Mental illness was long understood as a loss of this domineering control, and those affected were left at the mercy of power techniques...
Year of Publication: 2014
Andreas HeinzYear of Publication: 2014
The Concept of Mental Disorders
The revision of pivotal handbooks for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders stimulated lively discussions on how long a person may grieve after the death of a close relative without being diagnosed with clinical depression.
In this debate, the patients’ entitlement to being treated and their fear of pathologisation and patronisation has to be taken...
In this debate, the patients’ entitlement to being treated and their fear of pathologisation and patronisation has to be taken...
Year of Publication: 2019
Uffa JensenYear of Publication: 2019
How the Couch Came to Calcutta
A Global History of Early Psychoanalysis
At the end of the 19th century in Vienna, Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis. It developed into a global phenomenon in just a few decades. Concepts like »super-ego«, »narcissism« or »the Oedipus complex« have long been a part of our everyday speech. In order to understand this dynamic development, Uffa Jensen considers three cities which, in addition to Vienna, were of great importance for...
Year of Publication: 1985
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1985
Pictures of a Childhood
In Pictures of a Childhood, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative activity which »somehow permits us to give form to the chaos within and thereby master...
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USA (FSG), UK (Virago), France (Aubier/Flammarion)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Japan (Gendai Kikakushitsu)
Year of Publication: 2005
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2005
The Body Never Lies
The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting
In this empowering work, writes Rutgers professor Philip Greven, readers will learn how to confront the overt and covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened guidance of Alice...
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Spanish world rights (Tusquets), Chinese simplex rights (China Youth Press), Chinese complex rights (Psy Garden), Russia (Bombora), Arabic world rights (Dar El Kalema), France (Flammarion), Italy (Cortina), Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum), Korea (Tin Drum), Vietnam (Bachvietbooks / Ibooks), Poland (Media Rodzina), Romania (Herald), Lithuania (Vaga), Turkey (Okuyan), Greece (Printa), Azerbaijan (Quanun)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (W.W. Norton), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF), Slovenia (Tangram)
Year of Publication: 2003
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2003
Thruth Will Set You Free
Overcoming Emotional Blindness
When God created the Garden of Eden, he came up with a cruel scenario: He gave Adam and Eve the tree of knowledge, but forbade them to eat of its fruits. The Father of all fathers punished the...
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English world rights (Basic Books), Spanish world rights (Paidos), Chinese simplex rights (China Youth Press), Chinese complex rights (Psy Garden), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Martins Fontes), France (Flammarion), Italy (Cortina), Korea (Tin Drum), Japan (Shin Yo Sha), Vietnam (Bachvietbooks / Ibooks), Czech Republic (Triton), Turkey (Paloma), Greece (Printa)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum)
Year of Publication: 1983
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1983
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
Society's Betrayal of the Child
»Originally published in 1984, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware explodes Freud's notions of »infantile sexuality« and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal...
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English world rights (FSG), Russia (OOO Akademicheskij Projekt), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Martins Editora), France (Aubier), Italy (Bollati), Japan (Shichosha), Poland (Jacek Santorski), Czech Republic (Triton), Turkey (Profil), Greece (Printa)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum)
Year of Publication: 1990
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1990
Banished Knowledge
Facing Childhood Injuries
Cruelty to a »bad child« will make that child into a bad adult and later create a bad world, unless an enlightened witness comes to the rescue. A child respected and taken seriously will...
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USA (Doubleday), UK (Virago), Spanish world rights (Tusquets), France (Aubier), Italy (Garzanti), Turkey (Profil), Greece (Printa)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum)
Year of Publication: 2007
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2007
Free from Lies
Discovering Your True Needs
Since the landmark publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child, no one has been more influential than Alice Miller in empowering adults whose lives were maimed emotionally and physically...
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English world rights (W.W. Norton), Spanish world rights (Tusquets), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Harold Wallner), Arabic world rights (Dar El Kalema), France (Flammarion), Italy (Bollati), Poland (Media Rodzina), Turkey (Egitim Yayinevi), Greece (Printa)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Firevoice)
Year of Publication: 1983
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1983
For Your Own Good
Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
»For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the...
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USA (FSG), UK (Virago), Spanish world rights (Tusquets), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Lucidabooks), Russia (OOO Akademicheskij Projekt), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF), France (Aubier), Italy (Bollati), Denmark (Reitzels), Norway (Gyldendal), Japan (Shinyosha), Poland (Media Rodzina), Czech Republic (Triton), Hungary (Pont), Bulgaria (Iztok-Zapad), Estonia (Ursa Minor), Turkey (Arion), Greece (Printa), Ukraine (Rostyslav Burlaka Publishing)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum), Israel (Kinneret)Year of Publication: 2003
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 2003
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth
Psychohistorical analyses of such brutal tyrants as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Nicolae Ceausescu show the obvious links between the horrors of their childhoods and the horror they inflicted on...
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USA (Basic Books), France (Aubier), Poland (Media Rodzina), Romania (Nemira), Greece (Printa)
Year of Publication: 1997
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1997
Drama of the Gifted Child
The Search for the True Self
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer – and has helped them to apply...
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USA (Basic Books), UK (Virago), Spanish world rights (Tusquets), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Standway Books), Chinese complex rights (Psy Garden), Russia (OOO Akademicheskij Projekt), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Summus), Arabic world rights (Dar El Kalema), France (PUF), French audiobook (ABP Publishing), Italy (Bollati), Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum), Denmark (Reitzels), Sweden (Wahlstrom&Wildstrand), Norway (Gyldendal), Korea (Tindrum), Japan (Shin Yo Sha), Vietnam (Bachvietbooks / Ibooks), Poland (Media Rodzina), Czech Republic (Triton), Hungary (Osiris), Romania (Herald), Latvia (Atena), Lithuania (Vaga), Croatia (Cosmos Knjiga), Turkey (Mavi Agac), Greece (Printa), Ukraine (Rostyslav Burlaka Publishing), Azerbaijan (Quanun), Israel (Kinneret)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Portuguese rights (Paz), Serbia (Zoran Stojanovic)Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Ungehört)
Year of Publication: 1988
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1988
The Untouched Key
Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
As in her former books, Alice Miller again focusses on facts. She is as determined as ever to cut through the veil that, for thousands of years now, has been so meticulously woven to shroud the...
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USA (Doubleday), UK (Virago), Spanish world rights (Tusquets), France (Aubier), Italy (Garzanti), Denmark (Reitzels), Japan (Shin Yo Sha), Lithuania (Vaga), Turkey (Profil), Greece (Printa)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek | Het Spectrum)
Year of Publication: 1980
Tilmann MoserYear of Publication: 1980
Poisoning God
»It is not the ›case‹ itself and the lesson alone that make this book an absolutely worthwhile read. It is a pleasure to read Moser's prose, to watch the figures and images...
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Czech Republic (Dingir)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Z'Editions), Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (Wetenschappelijke Uitgeverij), Sweden (Förbundet St. Lukas), Norway (Pax)
Year of Publication: 2021
Wolfgang PrinzYear of Publication: 2021
Explaining Consciousness
Explaining consciousness – what does that mean and how does it work? Wolfgang Prinz’s key idea, which he presents in this book, considers consciousness a social institution based on self-representation. Explaining consciousness therefore means explaining the mental self. The discussion focuses on the justification and elaboration of the idea itself on the one and on the...
Year of Publication: 2017
Beate RösslerYear of Publication: 2017
Autonomy
An Essay on the Life well-lived
Naturally, we assume that we are all autonomous. And we think that a life in which we must do essential things against our will cannot be a well-lived one. But it is also true that...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Polity), Netherlands (Boom)
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