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Year of Publication: 2024
Thomas FuchsYear of Publication: 2024
Embodied Emotions
On the Phenomenology of Affectivity and Interaffectivity
Emotions are typically viewed as mental states that are situated in the hidden inner world of the subject or in the mind. This contrasts with a conception of embodiment that sees emotions as phenomena that connect the self and the world in a kind of bodily resonance. Viewed from this perspective, intersubjectivity does not begin with an isolated self that must first find its way to others, but...
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: 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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Year of Publication: 1981
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1981
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Year of Publication: 1980
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1980
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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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Uniboek Het Spectrum), Hungary (Pont), 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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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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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: 2025
Ilka QuindeauYear of Publication: 2025
Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism
A psychoanalytical perspective on anti-Semitism
The Frankfurt School concepts of the authoritarian personality and of Schuldabwehr (whereby postwar Germans developed resentment towards Jews precisely because of the crimes that were committed against them, which foisted a feeling of guilt upon them) have dominated the discourse on anti-Semitism in Germany...
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...
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